Enough of last yrs thread.
Snow in the valley.
Who's skiing tomorrow?
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Enough of last yrs thread.
Snow in the valley.
Who's skiing tomorrow?
seems la nina is ready to party? which means they'll probably shut down again this winter...
Vail North? Weak thread title. Anyway the only way this season isn't going to rock and roll is if someone cuts a gondola cable. My body is ready.
Agree! No wonder this one gets no action. Thought everyone was wishing for pre-covid times with the old one.Quote:
Originally Posted by paulster2626
Rockslide near the new Whistler peak suspension bridge.
Just heard but I think it happened in mid Oct???
I believe there was also one 2 years ago.
But this one is much bigger and went down to the bottom of Whistler bowl.
Surprised that it hasn't made any local Whistler news.
Pique - where are you!
Who has pics?
It happened Oct 15. There was a news story about it today, so everyone thinks it happened today.
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Annnnnnnnd the alpine will be closed for the next 15 years.
is that west bowl ?
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I heard it was caused by acidic bird shit?
What's with the slumping area on the left? It's that usually like that?
Thats normal, just how the snow is sticking on Shale Slope.Quote:
Originally Posted by abraham
Whistler Bowl.Quote:
Originally Posted by SirVicSmasher
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be interesting to see close ups and if it went right from the top of west cirque
Triggered right off the viewpoint gantry for the peak bridge close to bolts for support structureQuote:
Originally Posted by t.odd
forgive me its been 13+ years...Quote:
Originally Posted by Dee Hubbs
man I miss it
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On Blackcomb, too.Quote:
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No worries, It’s a strange angle.Quote:
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well that was a great investment.....Quote:
Originally Posted by LeeLau
edit - buddy just sent me a much better photo, wild
Here's a photo I took from the top a couple summers ago. No big shock that area slid.
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Economic stimulus for Geotech!Quote:
Originally Posted by t.odd
My Dad was the design engineer for the rock anchors for the bridge. They contacted him when this happened and they will be sending him pictures from a drone for an assessment. I won’t say much more going forward but the rock anchors were located and designed with this toppling failure risk in mind. It was a known risk but this slide will obviously be investigated.Quote:
Originally Posted by LeeLau
interesting!Quote:
Originally Posted by xyz
No, just no. Monkey Wrench gang will come out and blow the whole place up if that happens.Quote:
Originally Posted by paulster2626
Economic stimulus for your Dad!Quote:
Originally Posted by xyz
The slide did stimulate him but at this point in his career he’s looking for a little less work based economic stimulus.Quote:
Originally Posted by LeeLau
Have we ruled out the wind yet?
Or a vandal with a pry bar?
Rocks poaching first tracks already!
Not that I want to take away from the vital task of PG's work to identify the squirrels with lasers that are clearly responsible for harnessing the wind to cause landslides near cable structures (a clear cumulation of their practice work at the Squamish Gondola and the Joffre slides...) but,
you used to be able to easily find ways to volunteer with W/B for various things - but now that I'm back and able to, that part of the website is gone. Anyone know how you can get involved with stuff on the hill - sort of feel like digging in with the community a bit now that I'm back in the S2S more permanently.
I always scratch my head on why someone would want to volunteer their time to a public company with a 9.5b market cap, but hey you do you.
They get free pass but still not worth it given the 25 days you need to do.Quote:
Originally Posted by shirk
Lots of retirees seem to do the volunteer thing on the hill. That blows my mind even more, work your whole life to retire, then work for free.
Do they do anything other than the ski host gig? Certainly not a difficult job and if you run the mountain tours you probably get a decent amount in tips (assuming they're allowed to accept them).Quote:
Originally Posted by xyz
I'm not sure how many volly ops there are this year, heard from some insiders that speed police/mtn safety isn't happening this year...I vollied my first year in town in 2002, then it was only 15 days I think, 25 current policy, no way ever.
$1300 pass in exchange for 25 days.
$52 per day for your time.
Even if your shift is only 6.5 thats $8.00 per hour.
Anyone get a peak at the peaks today? Is there a snow line?
My wife has done the ski host thing for a few years, at the moment there are no activities on the hill that require volunteers that are going to be run. Apparently one of the reasons is that volunteers have to be covered by Work Safe BC, Which makes the hill liable for any injuries a volunteer may incur. They don’t want the added risk of possible Covid transmissions between volunteers and the paid staff who supervise them.Quote:
Originally Posted by knowsam
In fact pretty much everything except lessons has been cancelled. No race programs, no training, probably no Peak to Valley.
May change in the future, but as far as we know that’s the current situation.
And the reason to volunteer isn’t usually just the free pass, my wife does it because she enjoys meeting all the different people, and since she is on the hill almost every day anyway, one day a week during the season doing ski host just means she is skiing with someone different every now and then.
That's it for me exactly - I work from remotely from home (Covid or not), want a chance to get out and be part of the community. I'd be just as happy assisting with adaptive ski program or the ski school and my work doesn't allow a second income without a lot of paperwork. I do get why some people think its a bit of rip off - it just happens for me that one of my absolute favourite days out is showing someone around the hill.Quote:
Originally Posted by eldereldo
I've been a volly in the Events department for 12 years. Lots of fun. It's never been 25 days. The last few years were 19 days of service for a full W-B pass. Volunteer programs included patrol, mountain safety, mountain host, cafeteria host and, of course, events (all the recreational racing and a few junior national comps). There are non W-B volly positions like Whistler Adaptive Sports Program that deals with people with disabilities but isn't part of W-B corporate.Quote:
Originally Posted by knowsam
This year the volunteer program is in limbo. We (vollys) received emails (in September) from our respective department heads that no decision had been made and we should buy passes if we wanted to ski for sure (I did). In reality I didn't hear from my supervisor until the middle of November anyway. Normally there was a job fair in the fall and volunteer positions were part of the hiring.
In Events this summer all the comps didn't happen and this winter will be more of the same. In past years there were a dozen staff and 50-60 vollys. There were three to five events a week.
I'd be curious to find out what role avalanche mitigation has in advancing rock erosion.
Are bombs dropped in that area?
Or was it leaching and organic weathering caused by all the pee that those rocks endure on gaper day?
Urine is eroding the world's tallest church tower
I'd assume that the geo-specialists did a thorough survey of the platform area and concluded it was safe for many years.
How about rockfall at the top of Showcase t-bar. Hanging rock - is it still hanging?
That ice-cave on Blackcomb looks shakey too. Onecutmedia's summer video makes the whole thing look a little precarious.
Sorry to hear about the vollies program. There is quite a group of retirees that help out with mountain safety, and
it makes the mountain safer. While you won't get covid, you just might get bowled over this year by a speed demon in the "SLOW" skiing zones.
They really should increase the perks, a free pass isn't exactly worth the time commitment and schedule involved.
Last years early season drought had me thinking that’d be the best way to do the volley for pass thing. Knock out all your days during the white ribbon of death then ski free for rest of season on real snow. But thats obviously impossible to predict and can also be the best time of year to ski.Quote:
Originally Posted by puregravity