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Great pic, very nice!! Some wicked avy hazard these past 2 weeks.

The biggest avy debris fields in my recollection was the Phantom event. That was some 215 inches of snow over a 18 day period and then over night it warmed up wildly sending down the slides.

My bro and I skied out in the Commonwealth that weekend and the piles were enormous off Red, Lundin and Snoqualmie.

Griff, are you referring to the original Phantom event? When was that? Pictures?

Griff, are you referring to the original Phantom event? When was that? Pictures?

Oh yeah brother. I was around during those days, and in fact was directing a ski school at Alpy and my 25 year skiing partner was a pro patroller at Alpy in those days.

I think it was 1992, but alas I am getting old and my memory fades. LOL. I can still remember though to this day the headline in the Seattle Times "215 in 18 days". Or something to that effect.

My bro had been doing avy conrol for 18 days straight and was getting tired. There was an article in Powder mag that following year from a bro at Stevens about that stretch and literally throwing afternoon "protect your ass" charges for the NEXT morning.

Then, somewhere around midnight in Seattle that fateful night, I came out of a bar cause it was time to get some sleep for the POWDER day the next day (like the previous 17) and I felt the warm air. REALLY warm air.

And of course said WTF, no powder tomrrow????

I wanna say it was Saturday but might have been Friday. Drove up the next day to the disaster area that was the Phantom. Old growth trees stacked upon on another. Fucking incredible.

I think it was 1992, but alas I am getting old and my memory fades. LOL. I can still remember though to this day the headline in the Seattle Times "215 in 18 days". Or something to that effect.

My bro had been doing avy conrol for 18 days straight and was getting tired. There was an article in Powder mag that following year from a bro at Stevens about that stretch and literally throwing afternoon "protect your ass" charges for the NEXT morning.

I remember the "Sweep of Death" at Stevens... 21 days of control work... ran out of 3x8's, 1x3's started throwing 3x16's... crazy days... truly epic powder cycle. Still talked about at Stevens by the old timers.

that one left a little hotel sized pile of debris in source lake.
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The one I'm talking about was in the upper basin above Snow Lake. It ran down to the Thumbtack and left car-size blocks of snow littered about.

We've seen some big slides in recent years- the one out of Boston Basin, the one in Gold Creek valley, the ongoing slides at Source Lake. Is it just me, or does it seem like our snowfall pattern has changed, and we're getting less mid-winter and more in the early and late seasons?