Avalancehe Survival 101

[ctenidae]

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18487840

Apparently, what you mostly need is a flashlight and cajones the size of a tractor tire.

 

[bvibert]

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18487840

Apparently, what you mostly need is a flashlight and cajones the size of a tractor tire.

That's crazy!

 

[cbcbd]

"In the winter, this is the most avalanche-prone highway in the lower 48 states. One hundred-sixty slide paths breach a 20-mile stretch of pavement."

Geez, if it's that frequent you'd think they'd take some measures like they do in the Alps with avalanche barriers:

 

[bvibert]

"In the winter, this is the most avalanche-prone highway in the lower 48 states. One hundred-sixty slide paths breach a 20-mile stretch of pavement."

Geez, if it's that frequent you'd think they'd take some measures like they do in the Alps with avalanche barriers:

I was thinking the same thing as I was reading the article...

 

[cbcbd]

I was thinking the same thing as I was reading the article...

Just seems pretty negligent and easily preventable with simple improvements that would last in the long run.

"He was the third snowplow driver to perish on that same 100 feet of highway."

 

[Marc]

Cost vs. benefit. 20 miles is a pretty long stretch to protect (would be like building an avalanche shed from my house to Worcester, MA), but I agree, it would certainly seem wise to cover at least some of the more slide prone stretches.

 

[hiroto]

Cost vs. benefit. 20 miles is a pretty long stretch to protect (would be like building an avalanche shed from my house to Worcester, MA), but I agree, it would certainly seem wise to cover at least some of the more slide prone stretches.

Something like this would be nice.

 

[amf]

That pass, and two others just like it, are the only thing that keeps the riff-raff out of the area. God bless mother nature, I say.