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Holy shit.... that crown.... damn.
Especially because even if you went out there and dug a pit, chances are you wouldn't go deep enough to find that unstable layer.
But at the same time, I wonder how hard it would be for skiers to trigger something that deep.
S.Cnever seen an avy from man made snow haha
S.Cnever seen an avy from man made snow haha
Drailis that "the wall" at holiday valley?
tBattNot a massive slide like most of the ones being posted, but this happened up in the Wasatch yesterday.
Third member of the party to descent the slope and it broke out at 2' deep. 40° slope pitch, North facing, and had just been loaded with ~2.5" water weight two days before. Carried and buried 3 ft under. Skier was quickly rescued, but was no breathing. Began breathing on his own once the snow was cleared from this throat. Open tib-fib. Had to be carried down to an appropriate landing zone to be picked up by life flight. The heli landed at Alta first to grab some patrollers to help with the rescue.
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LucasHere's more Info: http://utahavalanchecenter.org/avalanches/22607
Pretty risky to be skiing that type of terrain with the snowpack the way it is
J.D.This thread is great for pictures, but if we're talking about incidents, post-analysis and etc, I think the avalanche awareness thread is the spot for it.
stupendous-manshit, thats gnarly for east coast
Line_SkisThis was at Crystal, WA after they opened up Northway and it was a mad powder dash which funneled everyone on basically a traverse trail! Lots of snow quick = danger! A gril was buried (no transceiver) for about 10 minutes with an air pocket and hand popping up next to a tree. Very scary situation as there was about 50+ people there so it made for chaos! -jm
B.QuincyDang. Prime example to support those who say that resorts need to be more catious and make sure the snow/ terrain is safe before they open it. The fact that it was on the traverse, wow.
RudyGarmischYou can't prevent every slide inbounds. The one above was weird for a variety of factors, I don't see what the mountain could have really done to prevent it, other than closing massive areas of the mountain.
CraigskisTo the right of this photo is Blackcomb peak to the left is disease ridge. To my knowledge they don't bomb here. If you look into the centre of the pic you can see a run out and in the shade there's about a 1M crown which I believe was natural on one of my favourite lines in Whistler called Aids
CraigskisI had to confer with a skipatrol buddy. He said the bottom apron of DOA does get bombed, but the couloir doesn't due to area boundary. He also said the line which I referred to as Aids doesn't get bombed so that was a natural trigger.
Another photo which I didn't get to post because I deleted my memory card thinking I'd transferred it on to my hard drive which didn't end up getting posted.
Anyway, again this was about 3 weeks ago. If you can picture Where the Sudan couloir drains down into Jersey cream bowl. Glacier chair was closed so people were traversing hard across Jersey cream bowl to access the bottom pitch of Glacier chair. My buddy and I were throwing on are skins with the plans of skinning up hirer to access Purple haze chute. A patroller stopped us right before we were about to start our accent and closed the traverse. The very next ride up the chairlift it was viewable that a natural .5 slough slide had occurred. Hikers access had been closed off that day to 7th and the choices were limited we ended up playing in super miniputt lower aspect of Everglades getting decent powder every run which was a traverse and not a climb.
YoungJahDoug chabot from the gallatin national forest avalanche center done a talk about the saddle peak slide.
stupendous-manshit, thats gnarly for east coast
MinggIronically was looking for this photo on google images and it directed me to this thread.
There was a much smaller avalanche there today. It's nuts but really interesting at the same time. Since I got home, I've read a handful of stories about avalanches here. Apparently it's not uncommon! I grew up here and aside from this big one in 2007, I've never heard too much of this happening.
Hugh_Conway_jris that man made snow?