Avy Control

[davidhowland14]

I posted this on TFT and thought I'd share the downer with all of you:

"Snow Maintenance" to be Carried out in Tuckerman Ravine
Pinkham Notch, NH
April 1, 2008
The Mount Washington Avalanche Center and the Mount Washington Volunteer ski patrol have been studying the snowpack in the ravine since early March, and have concluded that, due to the excess snowfall this season and the accompanying high avalanche activity, something must be done to augment Nature's efforts at melting the snow. In a plan released today, the Mount Washington Avalanche Center will be placing large amounts of dynamite in holes dug horizontally into the base of the ravine. These charges will be detonated in the afternoon of April 5th, and are expected to destabilize the snowpack in the entire Ravine, resulting in large avalanches.

"These charges will serve two purposes" said Snow Ranger Chris Joosen, "They will help bring snow down from the Lip and the Icefall areas, and they will accomplish a great deal of brush and deadfall clearing in the Little Headwall area as the avalanches sweep out of the ravine."

Tuckerman Ravine will be closed from 6:00 PM Friday, April 4th, 2008 until 12:00 AM Sunday, April 6th, 2008 to allow the snow rangers to set and activate the charges, and to allow the ravine to fully avalanche and destabilize. Members of the Mount Washington Volunteer Ski Patrol will be standing guard at the entrance to the Tuckerman Ravine leading up to the bowl, and Joosen recommends that all visitors to the ravine purchase viewing tickets for the HoJo's deck. Visitors not holding tickets, which Joosen said could be purchased at the Pinkham Notch Visitor Center, will be turned away and sent back down the mountain. The Mount Washington Avalanche Center and the Mount Washington Volunteer Ski Patrol ask for the cooperation of the public while this important snow maintenance is carried out.

yikes.

 

[snoseek]

Viewing tickets?

Sounds to me like they are going to bomb the $hit out of it.

 

[deadheadskier]

I wonder how long after this event until the ravine will be skiable again.

 

[dmc]

I bet the snow really "piles up"...

 

[TheBEast]

How longer before some calls out the April Fools joke.....

 

[Skier75]

How longer before some calls out the April Fools joke.....

Funny, I was just thinking that......

 

[Phlogiston]

It's a good one; the reference to buying tickets is just like the hoax about a new lift at Tuckerman's a few years ago. Anyone remember that one?
They had a photoshopped pic of Tuckerman's with a lift pasted in. Quite funny.

People actually believed that a lift could have been built at Tuckerman's and this was the first time they'd hear of it; when it was already up and running... and they were told that tickets had to be bought offsite; not at the mountain.

 

[davidhowland14]

I can't believe that people are actually going for this. One of the people in my group emailed me back asking where to buy the tickets.

 

[deadheadskier]

I can't believe that people are actually going for this. One of the people in my group emailed me back asking where to buy the tickets.

Serves my ADD ass self right. I didn't bother reading past the first paragraph before replying

 

[Phlogiston]

Part of the fun of this kind of hoax is getting people to go to some third party, at a remote location, looking for tickets. This can befuddle the employees at that location, as well as make the believer look foolish.

 

[davidhowland14]

I plan on asking behind the desk at pinkham if they got any phone calls about "viewing tickets". I just wish I'd thought this up earlier in the day, when people might have called.

 

[tcharron]

It's a good one; the reference to buying tickets is just like the hoax about a new lift at Tuckerman's a few years ago. Anyone remember that one?
They had a photoshopped pic of Tuckerman's with a lift pasted in. Quite funny.

People actually believed that a lift could have been built at Tuckerman's and this was the first time they'd hear of it; when it was already up and running... and they were told that tickets had to be bought offsite; not at the mountain.

Wish I could find that image of the new lift installed at tuckermans. That was classic.

 

[davidhowland14]

all I could find were these images of it on apparel. The T4T galleries are undergoing a revamp, so I couldn't find the original.

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[tcharron]

Ah HA!

 

[ski220]

Ah HA!

Very, very funny. Especially since the lift is installed running DOWNHILL!