A Basin Slide

[RockChalk]

http://www.9news.com/news/local/arti...rs-report-says

Anyone hear about this one?
Nobody missing, a few injuries, I think only one burial.

[timmaio]

Yep. Saw the slide path the day after. Went to ground in areas

[My Pet Powder Goat]

well, That'll be the end of that guided program.

Glad everyone is OK, It's Amazing how big the slide was with so few injuries.

[RockChalk]

12 ft crown in some places? damn

[Trace Hardslab]

Whew, glad everybody's alright! Nothing like a good scare?!! During 20 years of daily laps out the old access gate (pre-expansion), I personally triggered 3 deep slabs on this slope. Two were 6 feet deep, one was 9 feet deep! All were triggered intentionally with bouncing cuts across the top.

In Summit County, the snow is often so heavily wind loaded/affected that going for a tour & trundling cornice-blocks & jumping around on the top of paths was more fun than actually trying to ski the wind-jack. Folks who do this in places like Summit, Pitkin, San Juan, etc, get to see some crazy shit.

It'll be interesting to hear eyewitness accounts. I recall that slope running rather slowly (it's not very steep). And yes, I've been bit hard screwing around with cornices. Sometimes they break behind you!

[KansasBoarder]

And yes, I've been bit hard screwing around with cornices. Sometimes they break behind you!

To Troll, or not to Troll?


Glad no one was hurt - the images on the CAIC report are pretty scary given how many people were on the slope. Post avy-mitigation as well, talk about spatial variability.

https://avalanche.state.co.us/acc/ac...90&view=public

[Trace Hardslab]

CAIC posted the full report. Glad everybody lived to tell the tale.

Could have been much worse. 2 of the 3 slides I triggered on that slope involved a fair amount of the pictured hangfire on skiers left. In the 3rd instance, the entire skiers right corniced area of the bowl pulled out! It was quite the sight. We never stopped where they did either.

https://avalanche.state.co.us/acc/ac...=490&accfm=inv

[MakersTeleMark]

WTF ...

http://www.summitdaily.com/article/2...ntProfile=1055

[DaHeel]

Hodges and his brother, who is on the Timber Ridge Junior Development Race Team, both have some bumps and bruises, but Hodges said that he enjoyed the overall experience and that it makes for a great story.

“It was the ride of a lifetime,” he said.

[ShadyNasty]

Hodges and his brother, who is on the Timber Ridge Junior Development Race Team, both have some bumps and bruises, but Hodges said that he enjoyed the overall experience and that it makes for a great story.

“It was the ride of a lifetime,” he said.

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