avalanche at wisp

[Trekchick]

Haven't the snow makers every watched grumpy old men?
Isn't that how Matthau got the snow to fall off the roof onto Lemon?

H20 in al its forms is tricky stuff.

 

[JD]

im sorry where are the avi chutes?:blink:

lol

 

[JD]

Yes. By the time we got to the spruce side, on friday, stuff had really wind loaded, and the sun came out that morning. Ground layer was like a house of cards.

 

[bvibert]

one of the meat head films skiers died a few years back on a shoot on mansfield.

If I recall correctly it was a small slough that was just enough to knock him off a cliff. I don't think it was a 'big slide'.

 

[dmc]

If I recall correctly it was a small slough that was just enough to knock him off a cliff. I don't think it was a 'big slide'.

yes that was slough...

 

[Marc]

even the two days after the storm shit was letting go on some of the steeper areas. even with trees. the snow does some strange stuff with that much weight.

Unless the trees are too thick to walk through, they're not thick enough to prevent a slide... as they tell you in Avi 1.

 

[dmc]

Unless the trees are too thick to walk through, they're not thick enough to prevent a slide... as they tell you in Avi 1.

yeah... thats a big heuristic trap...

 

[SIKSKIER]

The Whites in NH avalanche a lot.Take a look at all the slide paths that have been kept open when driving through Franconia notch.Regular avi reports are given for MtW all winter.Of course we have avi's here in the east.

 

[dmc]

The Whites in NH avalanche a lot.Take a look at all the slide paths that have been kept open when driving through Franconia notch.Regular avi reports are given for MtW all winter.Of course we have avi's here in the east.

http://www.tuckerman.org/avalanche/index.html

 

[JD]

yes that was slough...

It was slough the propagated down into the snowpack. That same day goat took a snowboarder into the woods. They were skiing an old slide path that is an ice flow. The day after I blew my knee out. 20 inches of blower on hardpack after a long wait for snow. We were all jonesing. He was a great kid.

 

[dmc]

It was slough the propagated down into the snowpack.

You mean the slough picked up snow underneath? Isn't that normal?

 

[JerseyJoey]

Vertigo headwall at Killington let go last season due to heavy and wet snowmaking followed by a freeze and a thaw. No one was hurt, but the slide took out some snowmaking equipment.

 

[JD]

You mean the slough picked up snow underneath? Isn't that normal?

Not nessesarily. Your slough can slide along with you on top of the snow you're skiing in....or it can rip down into the snow pack and bring more then the snow you displaced into the equation.

 

[St. Jerry]

The Rumor at Gore slid a couple of years ago.

 

[hardline]

Unless the trees are too thick to walk through, they're not thick enough to prevent a slide... as they tell you in Avi 1.

true but it was the first time that had personally see stuff let go in tight EC woods. as i recall the was a pretty bad surface under the new stuff and after the wind blew it around things where no better.