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Utsikt said:
How come people that have been in avalanches frequently report not knowing which way is up or down? A common survival tip is to drool and let gravity tell you which was you’re oriented.
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I think that may be because they cannot move so they cannot test their semicircular canal and otolith function by finding differences on movement. The organ is likely to accommodate when static.
 
Utsikt said:
How come people that have been in avalanches frequently report not knowing which way is up or down? A common survival tip is to drool and let gravity tell you which was you’re oriented.

Maybe they’ve been knocked about so much that their sense of direction is temporarily out of order.
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Ahh my old AST-1 training coming in handy.

AN avalanche can take you 1000’s of meters with hundreds of pounds of snow on top of you. Have you ever seen a skier tamahok down a run? They look like an axe being thrown down a hill. Now imagine that with 1000lb of snow on top and zero visibility. It’s impossible to hold orientation. This plus avalanches mostly happen on steep hills above 35 degrees.

The spit thing is mostly a myth, if you’re so far buried and upside down you won’t be able to move. Spitting isn’t going to help, the snow will hold you down you won’t be able to dig yourself out even if you knew which way was up. If you can dig yourself out and move enough to see your spit you’re near the top and probably don’t need to spit to see where you’re at.
 
Alinda said:
It's how the private clinic I go to considers/uses it, and I have seen people online use the same scale. But no idea if there is anything "official" about it..
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Genuinely wasn’t aware and that’s good to know. It also explains why some LC people are being so certain they don’t have ME/CFS and some say they have both.
 
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