High Campbell no more

Check out the webcam pic of the CB snowstake frozen in time a mere seconds before an icy death.

Long live CB snowstake!

Umm, what's a jump line?

Also, as opposed to stepping down to the base it appears the dirt came from the upper stand of trees where the pack is shallow over a terrain feature, then dragged down to make the brown streaks <insert obvious joke here>.

In the first photo, why don't people walk the ridge and ski it from the top?

March 7 photo, before the throne opened.  This whole basin slid?!!!  What a difference three days makes.

Umm, what's a jump line?

It's an inefficient path that snowboarders use to get to the bottom of the hill where periods of downhill (efficient) travel are punctuated with uphill features (inefficient) that lead to varying amounts of air under the travellers feet.  Sometimes aerial manuevers are performed that serve no purpose to improving the downhill travel.  Laughter and smiles usually follow. 

Skiers adopted the activity after seeing how much fun snowboarders had and soon after "slopestyle" became a new Olympic sport.

random factoid for those that don't know.... High Campbell used to be one of the chairs at Yodelin and was moved to Crystal after Yodelin shut down.

In the first photo, why don't people walk the ridge and ski it from the top?

Walking the ridge requires passing through a backcountry gate. Silas' caption says the picture was taken before the gate opened.

Traversing across the basin does not require passing through a gate. The traverse is open whenever Chair 6 is open. It's amazing to think of how much that slope has been skied during the season, and it still broke loose.

I think it would be awesome to get somebody from the Crystal Mountain avalanche patrol to talk at NSAW about what they look for when fighting a deep slab problem like this. It might provide a good heads-up for backcountry skiers thinking about early spring conditions.

They obviously had a pretty good clue that this was possible.  Maybe based on the Employee Housing slide they released the previous day.