A flatlander storm Wednesday?

[ss20]

At Thunder Ridge my understanding is that we had a big temporary tent in the parking lot get destroyed by the wind and fly up and disturb the power lines for the mountain (and perhaps the neighborhood per FB comments lol). So now we're closed Saturday and maybe Sunday.

Just another casualty. There's much worse things that can happen in this industry.

 

[KustyTheKlown]

belleayre damage photos lifted from reddit

pretty fuckin nuts

last time i was there that lodge caught fire and we had to wait so long for fire dept to clear the building to get my bag w sneakers and car keys to leave

 

[kingslug]

Imagine if anyone was in there...damn

 

[ss20]

Imagine if anyone was in there...damn

Yeah really. Thank God it was Christmas...if it were a Saturday in a normal year in Jan/Feb they probably would've been open even with the rain.

 

[kingslug]

Its very hard to shock me..this did..

 

[drjeff]

Even a wet slide on the main face of Mount Snow today. Not my pic though.

This is Lodge, just above where Somerset Rd cuts across, this afternoon.

Who says the main face of Mount Snow isn't extreme?

 

[BenedictGomez]

belleayre damage photos lifted from reddit

My wife always has a way of seeing the bright side of things, she says they now have COVID friendly dining.

 

[KustyTheKlown]

Imagine if anyone was in there...damn

i could be wrong, but i don't think this would have hurt anyone. its super slow moving, like lava. its not a quick violent thing like what we think of as an avalanche. anyone in its path would have had time to get out of the way.

 

[KustyTheKlown]

Even a wet slide on the main face of Mount Snow today. Not my pic though.

This is Lodge, just above where Somerset Rd cuts across, this afternoon.

Who says the main face of Mount Snow isn't extreme?
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that is so wild to see an avalanche crown at mount snow.

 

[hub8]

i could be wrong, but i don't think this would have hurt anyone. its super slow moving, like lava. its not a quick violent thing like what we think of as an avalanche. anyone in its path would have had time to get out of the way.

I also don't think it is a hard slab.

 

[hub8]

But I'm never the less impressed by how much destruction there was. Thanks for sharing the pictures.

 

[raisingarizona]

i could be wrong, but i don't think this would have hurt anyone. its super slow moving, like lava. its not a quick violent thing like what we think of as an avalanche. anyone in its path would have had time to get out of the way.

If you were somewhere on that slope below the crown when it pulled it could f you up in a real bad way. Im more scared to be in one of these than a big hard slab or powder avalanche. At least with a more fast moving slab my chances of things ending quickly and painlessly are a lot better. Wet slides move really slowly like lava or wet concrete. There’s a ton of weight and force and you’d get slowly dragged into and through whatever mess is in its path. It’s more like a slow moving land slide. Scary stuff.

if you are below and see it coming then yeah, you can likely get out of there but still, good thing no one was in the lodge when this happened.

 

[kingslug]

Just some more pics of the lodge..I don't know how slow or fast this moved but it destroyed the place from one end to the other.

 

[ss20]

that is so wild to see an avalanche crown at mount snow.

Hey man I've heard Ripcord has slid before if that counts.

 

[drjeff]

Hey man I've heard Ripcord has slid before if that counts.

Ripcord has in the past as well as Little Steep (of the bottom of Plummet).

This was the first one I can recall, that I have heard of on the main face.

Lodge is closed today. More due to multiple wash outs above where the wet slide happened than the slide area itself from what I saw from the Bluebird this morning.

The cats, and they were still working Lodge this morning, had put the slide area back together and they had the fan guns in that area all lit up

 

[dmort]

Ripcord has in the past as well as Little Steep (of the bottom of Plummet).

This was the first one I can recall, that I have heard of on the main face.

Lodge is closed today. More due to multiple wash outs above where the wet slide happened than the slide area itself from what I saw from the Bluebird this morning.

The cats, and they were still working Lodge this morning, had put the slide area back together and they had the fan guns in that area all lit up

What a disaster for Belleayre - that's where I normally ski, but now that the gondola is there, I usually just ski out of the lower lodge. It's one thing one too of another for ski mountains.