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Thread: Close call Greg Mace Peak (CO)
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11-22-2017, 01:22 PM #1
Close call Greg Mace Peak (CO)
http://avalanche.state.co.us/caic/ac...ep&view=public
Awfully close call. Glad they're ok.
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11-22-2017, 01:34 PM #2Registered User
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I'm curious, would that actually be considered low angle safe terrain? It literally looks like the middle of an avalanche path.
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11-22-2017, 02:00 PM #3guy who skis
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A 35 degree gully/terrain trap doesn't qualify as low angle safe terrain in my book.
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11-22-2017, 02:24 PM #4Rope->Dope
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That's a favorable outcome.
They observed frequent cracks that broke up to 16 inches deep on a layer of facets between the slab and the ground.
No bueno.
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11-22-2017, 03:00 PM #5Registered User
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I am extremely new to the Backcountry so I am probably overly cautious but that looks like somewhere I wouldn't go. Just trying to learn.
Last edited by toastybroski; 11-22-2017 at 03:32 PM.
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11-22-2017, 03:23 PM #6Rod9301
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They were wrong, steep slope, cracks, steeper slope above them, gully, maybe terrain trap.
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11-22-2017, 03:29 PM #7Banned
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This is Aspen, they weren't wrong, they're heroes, mavericks, pioneers of snow sliding. They did battle with the mountains and won.
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11-22-2017, 05:35 PM #8Registered User
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11-22-2017, 07:24 PM #9
Obvious avalanche path is obvious.
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11-22-2017, 11:24 PM #10
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11-23-2017, 12:48 AM #11
It always seems obvious in retrospect.
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11-23-2017, 12:51 AM #12
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11-23-2017, 12:53 AM #13"fuck off you asshat gaper shit for brains fucktard wanker." - Jesus Christ
"She was tossing her bean salad with the vigor of a Drunken Pop princess so I walked out of the corner and said.... "need a hand?"" - Odin
"everybody's got their hooks into you, fuck em....forge on motherfuckers, drag all those bitches across the goal line with you." - (not so) ill-advised strategy
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11-23-2017, 12:58 AM #14Is it radix panax notoginseng? - splat
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11-23-2017, 10:21 AM #15"fuck off you asshat gaper shit for brains fucktard wanker." - Jesus Christ
"She was tossing her bean salad with the vigor of a Drunken Pop princess so I walked out of the corner and said.... "need a hand?"" - Odin
"everybody's got their hooks into you, fuck em....forge on motherfuckers, drag all those bitches across the goal line with you." - (not so) ill-advised strategy
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11-23-2017, 02:14 PM #16
Whoa! Blast from the past. Gotta find that cool red wine hat too!
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