Best way to die in an avalanche

amccahill93Saw a thread about scouting lines with lazer pointers to more easily communicate what you want to ski with your partner. Gave me another idea, could use a high enough powered lazer to ski cut a slope from a distance? Could we long range snipe a line and see if it slides before we start heading towards it?

**This thread was edited on Dec 25th 2020 at 2:26:38pm

This is actually really interesting....

Do you know how powerful a laser would have to be to be able to do that?

no

AyylmaoDo you know how powerful a laser would have to be to be able to do that?

amccahill93no

That shit would cut your balls off cowboy

Snow being white would reflect most of the light and for a laser to be able to do that it would have to be incredibly powerful not the kind of tech the government wants in the people’s hands

amccahill93Saw a thread about scouting lines with lazer pointers to more easily communicate what you want to ski with your partner. Gave me another idea, could use a high enough powered lazer to ski cut a slope from a distance? Could we long range snipe a line and see if it slides before we start heading towards it?

**This thread was edited on Dec 25th 2020 at 2:26:38pm

Lasers are good for spotting lines. Leave starting avalanches to the professionals. If you're not avy control chances are you probably have no idea where the slide is going to go once it's started.

Would also have to be massive

AyylmaoThat shit would cut your balls off cowboy

How about butter that comes in thin strips so you simply place it on bagels and toast rather than spreading with a knife.

Bro just get all the homies to piss in a line to make the cornice fall....

I dont think lasers can exert very much force on the underlying snowpack and thus would not be an effective tool for avalanche mitigation. This is the same reason we don't use machine guns to do it. The cavitation channel for non-explosive rounds is small and concentrated. You need something that will exert a large concussive force. Explosives release a shockwave that can travel down and across to the weak faceted layers in a large enough area that the weight of the sliding top layer will be enough to break a whole slab free.

Military tanks work just fine for long distance avy control

Yeah, like disc shaped slices with holes in them, like little butter CDs for my bagels, would 100% buy

swagmasterflexHow about butter that comes in thin strips so you simply place it on bagels and toast rather than spreading with a knife.

Also you can load them with cans of paint to quickly and efficiently paint your house (and likely the neighbor’s)

TheMoostafianMilitary tanks work just fine for long distance avy control

SharkoYeah, like disc shaped slices with holes in them, like little butter CDs for my bagels, would 100% buy

There would have to be a standardized bagel size which I could also get behind. No more stuffing into toasters!

SharkoAlso you can load them with cans of paint to quickly and efficiently paint your house (and likely the neighbor’s)

Lol. WSDOT actually does have 2 tanks that they drive up highway 2 to do avy control around stevens pass

me pulling up to the backcountry parking lot with my avy laser

So what if you used a mega speaker and shot sound waves at it

Craw_DaddyI dont think lasers can exert very much force on the underlying snowpack and thus would not be an effective tool for avalanche mitigation. This is the same reason we don't use machine guns to do it. The cavitation channel for non-explosive rounds is small and concentrated. You need something that will exert a large concussive force. Explosives release a shockwave that can travel down and across to the weak faceted layers in a large enough area that the weight of the sliding top layer will be enough to break a whole slab free.

Me pulling up to the lot with my avy speaker

snowmosexualSo what if you used a mega speaker and shot sound waves at it