Slide at Alpental?

Also, chair 2 never opened today.... even if alpental is open tomorrow, I'd expect only armstrong to be running. I case you're thinking of heading up tomorrow...

The van was one of four cars in the slide. The others were able to drive away later.



Too foggy today to see the starting zone and the upper part of the track. The area in the deposition zone is where the Beacon Basin is located.

Too foggy today to see the starting zone and the upper part of the track. The area in the deposition zone is where the Beacon Basin is located.

How apropos!

The Alpental slide is nothing compared to a slide that came down off of Alta Peak into Gold Creek Basin. Yesterday it cleared enough for me to see with binocs (from Hyak) what I estimated to be a 10-ft + crown about 300 ft below the summit. The entire bowl went all the way down to the valley floor - that is 3,000 ft!. It took out an entire forested section about 200-yards wide and and 1,500 vert ft. Increrdible. If it ever clears again I will take some photos.

As for anyone who was out getting turns this past week as I have read in a bunch of other posts I hope extreme caution was being used. This really was not the week to be out touring and I'm thankful no one got killed up here this week. Seriously, everything was sliding this week up here. I was amased at all the fracture lines I saw yesterday when in cleared on every face, every aspect of Rampart Ridge and Kendal ridge. Hell, even the snowbanks were releasing all around the summit the summit area. I never even looked at my skis all week.

That doesn't surprise me. That slide path on Alta is really something. Can't wait to see the massive bridge over Gold Creek.

The van was one of four cars in the slide. The others were able to drive away later.

Too foggy today to see the starting zone and the upper part of the track. The area in the deposition zone is where the Beacon Basin is located.

Looks like it slid over the old rope tow area. Do they have a beacon search area setup there?? That would be ironic!

The Alpental slide is nothing compared to a slide that came down off of Alta Peak into Gold Creek Basin.

Sounds like the making of some nice new runs in the future when things settle down.
Joe