The Avalanche Doesn’t Care | Outside Online

As the saying goes, the avalanche doesn’t care if you’re an expert on avalanches or an expert on anything else, really the avalanche does not care that you have some email you’d like to answer or that you’ve been meaning to clean your garage or spend more time with your kids. The avalanche just cares about gravity and getting down the mountain. The avalanche doesn’t care that you are not an expert, Or that this is your first day ever skiing in the backcountry or your 200th day. The avalanche really doesn’t care. If you would prefer not to take a ride under thousands of pounds of snow moving downhill at 150 mph And come to a stop under the debrisNothing personal here just physics. The avalanche doesn’t care if you haven’t done everythingYou wanted to do in life yet the avalanche doesn’t care about your plans or dreams, or your free will, or whatever. For all the avalanche cares, You could be a tree or a rock. Really, you’re just in the way The avalanche doesn’t care if your friends are experts on avalanches, or on snow science, or at digging you out from under ten feet of recently relocated snow. The avalanche will probably not decide to take it easy on you and bury you under six feet of snow instead of ten feet this time, no hard feelings. The avalanche doesn’t care if you respect it will not pick a fight with you in a bar or bumping into it or stepping on its shoe does not have an ego or an agenda just a lot of mass and potential energy. That is really hard to win an argument with once it starts moving. The avalanche doesn’t care about the things you wanted to do in the next few years. But unlike the avalanches, few people would probably like it if you got home safely be careful out there. And if you’re not sure how to be careful. Maybe stay in bounds until you are because skiing is fun and being able to continue to ski for a very long time Is even more fun and of course, there are other things in life that are nice to be there for, too

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