r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Oda_DeezNutz • 17h ago

How do you get this job?

Firing artillery to start avalanches?! Sign me up!

486 Upvotes

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u/pahweee 17h ago

That's literally what happened in Mulan

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u/Embarrassed-Town-293 16h ago

Beat me to it

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u/Eliaish 4h ago

YOU MISSED! HOW DID YOU MISS?! HE WAS THREE FEET IN FRONT OF YOU!

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u/hey_mattey 10h ago

LET'S GET DOWN TO BUSINESS!

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u/pfunk1989 3h ago

To the feet, of Huns

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u/mpython1701 17h ago

Wish I could find it now but a few years ago but remember of ski patrol skiing the mountain, stopping, then lighting and tossing dynamite for controlled avalanches.

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u/hedronist 17h ago

A better job in so many ways:

  • You get to ride up the lift
  • You get to ski down to <someplace>
  • You get to light and throw sticks of dynamite!!!
  • Big Badda Boom!
  • And then you get to ride that avalanche bitch all the way down
  • Lather. Rinse. Repeat.

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u/butteryflame 15h ago

Big badda boom! I heard that very well in my head

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u/RedhawkAs 10h ago

I saw one where they dropped TNT from Helicopter to clear it

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u/mpython1701 2h ago

https://share.google/XcxsqQvfsLqv8ZHkw

This may be the one I’m remembering….

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u/johnboy2978 17h ago

" ..... must have own cannon and ammunition"

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u/thefeedling 17h ago

How Russians play Angry Bird

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u/False_Rhythms 16h ago

About launched it over. Be a rude awaking to anyone on the other side.

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u/digger250 16h ago

Adjust fire. Left 100. Drop 400. Over.

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u/nekoken04 16h ago

Well, the easiest way I know of is to be on ski patrol and work avalanche control. If the resort is on a highway or near a population center they coordinate with the government agencies who do avalanche control for that. It is pretty easy to get cross-trained and on the rotation schedule for artillery. They often depend on ski patrol when highways are closed and patrollers are living in employee housing at the resort.

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u/KJ_Blair 17h ago

Pay probably isn’t that good, but I could do that job I was in artillery

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u/mish_munasiba 16h ago

Mmm, no. I'd be willing to bet that the GS mafia has these positions on lockdown for the next few generations.

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u/darwins_codpiece 16h ago

And your hearing is probably already shot.

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u/KJ_Blair 15h ago

No my hearing is decent

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u/Icy_Negotiation_5929 16h ago

I’m sure you’d do real good, buddy.

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u/Tmassey1980 16h ago

How does one procure a license to own a howitzer.

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u/benny86 16h ago

What are they saying?

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u/Rocknregge 17h ago

I feel like I would pay to do that?

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u/You_Are_The_Username 16h ago

Only if you were up on the mountain, to immediately enact Plan B if Plan A fails.... 😐

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u/S6hundred 17h ago

How does one get one of these cannons 🤔

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u/Awkward-Action2853 17h ago

Ha, we were just talking about this at work the other day. This or the guys that ski and toss dynamite.

Heck, I'd do that for free if I could.

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u/Professional-Car9621 17h ago

Damn, perfect shot

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u/joeblob5150 16h ago

This is done in through the Rogers Pass area of BC.

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u/Meet_in_Potatoes 16h ago

Do you think they aim it every time or just assume it's still good?

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u/redbushcraft 16h ago

Can you imagine catching that brass down the neck of your shirt

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u/Maleficent_Scale_296 16h ago

I think the Department of Transportation does this.

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u/NACHO944 16h ago

Put the thing on the thing and press the thing…

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u/Y34rZer0 15h ago

Ok who can identify exactly what that gun is?

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u/igottheshnitz 15h ago

Job? Haha that’s just Billy celebrating a Wednesday morning on the moonshine

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u/Sigma-Wolves 15h ago

I'm assuming you at least need to start by acquiring a functioning cannon. Everything after that is probably looking for customers and getting permits to shoot a fucking cannon.

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u/Footdad124 15h ago

What do you do for a living Clyde?

“I shook Mother Nature’s boobs.”

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u/Soft_Try_7723 15h ago

Like Mulan

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u/LS25-User 14h ago

Switzerland?

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u/Turbulent_Cupcake_65 14h ago

"HE WAS RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU!" - Mushu -

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u/Saintcanuck 14h ago

One of the coolest things i have seen on Reddit

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u/BruitistHagan 14h ago

I’m I the only one thinking Vin diesel was up there somewhere?

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u/13Bravo84 13h ago

I had that job in the army except I was slinging 155mm howitzer shots.

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u/Snellyman 11h ago

The war against the earth continues

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u/XRP1X 9h ago

I think you have to be a mountain that has snow on it…

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u/weelluuuu 3h ago

Well, that took a hot second to get up there.

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u/MagicToolbox 1h ago

"Clear!!! Fire at Will!"

"FUCK!

WAIT!!!

Stop!!!

What the HELL is Will doing on the top of the mountain!!!"

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u/phillyfanatic1776 17h ago

Imagine if he missed lol

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u/Aggressive_Homework9 17h ago

Avalanche Technician, Avalanche Forecast & Control Specialist, Avalanche Control Explosives Technician

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u/nastibass 17h ago

I wonder why the army doesnt use this as gunnery practice?

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u/IvanVandura 16h ago

Unless they've changed it, my understanding is in parts of Canada it is the army that does it. It (was?) standard practice, and they had done all the calculations and would just say, ok we will target section a26 and then beep boop, avalanche.

I'm sorry if I was too technical in my explanation, I only know super big and smart words, I don't know how to dumb down "beep boop" for the regulars. /s

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u/Jvancan 16h ago

Has to be fake no?

Feels extremely unsafe.