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Ron, with deep instabilities be they surface hoar, facets, or bond to ice crusts (or even a wet layer or graupel for awhile), if buried deeply, even recognizing the weak layer and testing it doesn...
There are several messages in the Karl Klassen message that resonate not only in the recent Ruby event but also with respect to the current state of the snowpack. The most obvious is the concept of de...
It would be interesting to fly around the Cascades (were there visibility) and see just how many and how big of slides will go between Tuesday afternoon and Thursday PM. Baker has already had 46"...
Several people have inquired about what professionals do in dealing with a PWL. First off here is an article about the character of persistent deep slabs that was linked by the NWAC: http://www.avalan...
Wow, fabulous review of your avalanche incident from both of you.A couple of thoughts. It sounds like you have a firm grip on what happened. I like to think about having a risk profile. And as skier n...
That is quite an adventure. You guys really put yourselves out there. I'll bet the weather was a nearly constant object of conversation.
Good observation old guy.There was about a foot of snow above 5500' to 6000' on north through east aspects that remained on the ground for a good while in cold conditions with plenty of clea...
Wind forecast upgraded from merely breezy, NWS Reno:MONO COUNTY ABOVE 10000 FEET- 440 AM PDT MON APR 25 2011 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 11 PM PDT THIS EVENING...&n...
Another beautiful day coming up in the Sierra on Monday:NWS Reno: AN ANOMALOUSLY STRONG JET MOVES INTO THE WEST COAST SUNDAY NIGHT INTO MONDAY WITH 700-500 MB WINDS 3-4 STANDARD DEVIATIONS ABOVE NORMA...
Ummmm....smoked salmon.
author=JKordel link=topic=20515.msg87530#msg87530 date=1302926249]Here is a photo from last spring on a tour relatively near Easy Pass off Hwy 20. That mitten is 12" long so that puts the tracks...
author=kath link=topic=20515.msg87519#msg87519 date=1302912518]gary .. are you reporting those tracks to the state and/or nps biologists? .. did you get pix? we've done some griz camera placement...
author=fwb link=topic=20515.msg87335#msg87335 date=1302644665]McCall Mt (5760’) (White Riiver, Napeequa Crossing)April 9, 2011The ridge snow was mushy. On the way down passed a very fresh deep Bear...
Photos I've seen so far show some pretty junky snow with a fair bit of wind damage. Bishop has 60 mph winds forecast again today. The strongest winds I've encountered there broke the anenome...
author=SnowGirl link=topic=20403.msg86740#msg86740 date=1301762954]The area was closed and the avalanche was triggered by ski patrol.Was it triggered with explosives I would hope?
Wonderful riming on the trees.
I could add one more detail I now remember. The rescuers (probably from Stevens Pass) had searched for a long period (24 hours) and really had little hope of finding anyone alive in the destroyed cabi...
The mid-January 1971 avalanche incident took out one cabin and damaged another. Both cabins belonged to Seattle neighbors. If you cross the highway from the Stevens Pass housing facility and take the...
author=savegondor link=topic=20003.msg85225#msg85225 date=1299692850]Yes, pretty sobering report and VERY helpful. The logic the author used was similar to the logic I would have used or maybe exact....
author=cumulus link=topic=20003.msg85102#msg85102 date=1299614063]thanks to Gary too for additional info. I read this several times. I get the first part, but do larger convex slopes have a stiffer...
author=eze link=topic=20003.msg85022#msg85022 date=1299558464]The layer on which the slab released was indeed pretty slick. I think it was a rain crust, probably an inch or two thick that needed hard...
Good post EZE. We are not masters of our universe and need to realize that the high consequences of deep slabs should change everything. I saw a couple of 3' slabs today near Stevens Pass that pr...
author=Pete_H link=topic=20003.msg84836#msg84836 date=1299445301]Saw a huge crown from Hwy 2 in Chiwakum Cirque nearly half the width of the cirque from a slide that reportedly occured that day. Some...
author=jwplotz link=topic=20006.msg84797#msg84797 date=1299372471]I'd say in spring, when the thin snowpack is frozen in the morning is the best time to skin over the snags, or get lucky and hit...
Interesting story, Telemon. We all strive learn from our mistakes and hopefully don't make the same ones again. The amazing thing (I'm speaking for me) is that despite all of these mistakes,...
author=Stugie link=topic=12359.msg51906#msg51906 date=1235409296]Same fog conditions on Mt. Bailey. However we also had extremely unstable snow conditions. Luckily there were many trees and a cat tr...
author=jhamaker link=topic=12359.msg51782#msg51782 date=1235170575]Yeah Pierre, scaarry.Just a note. We had two parties of two out the Mt. Baker side of Colman Pinnacle over President's Day wk-e...
Glad you guys had a good trip. With 2-3' above the crust it does look like there has been a fair bit more snow down there than in our neck of the woods.I skied the Lewis Glacier route as a long d...
author=nordique link=topic=12359.msg51720#msg51720 date=1235089646]The one time I was avalanched was also in a fog situation, in the Canadian Rockies, above Bow Summit. As we ascended, conditions w...
You're welcome, Ryan, Skiguitarist.I found that situation interesting and thought immediately at the time, "Whoa, I'm in avalanche terrain!" Then the reasoning part came into play...