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03-03-2018, 01:21 PM #1Registered User
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Mammoth Mt. Inbounds Avy.
Just occurred. Mountain is now shut down as they conduct rescues. Shit. Hoping for the best for everyone involved.
https://www.facebook.com/mammothlake...40483796097436
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03-03-2018, 02:04 PM #2
Holy shit!!
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03-03-2018, 02:39 PM #3glocal
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Anyone got pics?
Had a scare that maggot mammoth mountain snowman was missing but he turned up safe.
Apparently, it ran beyond the bottom of chair 5 onto occupied runs.
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03-03-2018, 06:40 PM #4
Sounds like everyone is accounted for, so far.
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03-03-2018, 07:24 PM #5Registered User
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03-03-2018, 09:38 PM #6
That is a huge slide. LA Times reporting that the debris, in the form of a powder cloud, continued across Comeback, partially burying two customers. 5 was closed at the time, but employees prepping the lift were partially buried as well. Along with tossing a few snowmobiles. Crazy.
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03-03-2018, 10:52 PM #7
It slid down Climax the into Dry Creek and to bottom of 5?!
That’s huuuuge.
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03-04-2018, 10:16 AM #8
It's big, but not historic. Slides have run to the road in the past. Still bad when it crosses into open terrain. We got lucky with this one. Props to patrol for doing a fucking hard and not totally predictable job.
I agree it is a constitutional right for Americans to be assholes...its just too bad that so many take the opportunity...iscariot
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03-04-2018, 10:37 AM #9
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03-04-2018, 10:39 AM #10?
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I am thinking when Patrol has the upper mountain closed for control, people might STFU from now on? NAW
Own your fail. ~Jer~
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03-04-2018, 11:13 AM #11
Mammoth Mt. Inbounds Avy.
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03-04-2018, 12:07 PM #12
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03-04-2018, 03:26 PM #13
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03-04-2018, 04:33 PM #14
How was chair 23 when it opened?
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03-04-2018, 05:24 PM #15
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03-04-2018, 05:28 PM #16
Mammoth Mt. Inbounds Avy.
I was just being conservative, as I didn’t see any Mammy actuals.
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03-04-2018, 06:54 PM #17
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03-05-2018, 06:12 AM #18
Fucking phenomenal. I waited in the horribly long line and had to watch it get raped until it was my turn to pillage. Monument was not too badly sullied so I dropped and just about disappeared in a pocket of powder, probably chest deep, but quickly got into a rythum if knee to thigh deep light fluff. It was some of the lightest ,deepest snow I have skied off the top. There was almost no wind affected snow. It was amazingly stable for the amount of snow. Patrol for very little to move and what did move was more sluff then slab. Everything got hit fast and hard, and nothing moved. Actually I did see one small 4" slab move anchored to the rocks below 23. Two people hit a rock tale off point for a nice jump, but as the third person lined it up the slab ripped. Through him off balance but didn't carry him. The slab only went 10-15 feet. Never did see if he made the jump.
I knocked a similar small slab loose on 5, just a small pocket of wind slab anchored to a rock. I was surprised at how little moved after a reasonably storm cycle.
I agree it is a constitutional right for Americans to be assholes...its just too bad that so many take the opportunity...iscariot
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03-05-2018, 09:30 AM #19Registered User
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Here it is. Notice the three patrolmen(or two and a pack?), near the top of fracture.
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03-05-2018, 10:33 AM #20
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03-09-2018, 11:59 AM #21
Helmet cam of the slide from a 12 year old partial burial
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/avalanc...in-california/Originally Posted by blurred
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03-09-2018, 12:43 PM #22
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03-09-2018, 01:28 PM #23Registered User
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That girl has her vocal fry on point
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