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01-20-2021, 09:09 AM #1
Durrand Glacier avalanche anniversary
Today is the anniversary of the 2003 Durrand Glacier avalanche near Revelstoke. RIP Kathy Polucha Kessler. We think of you every time we turn the tap at Donner Lake and clean water--any water--comes out. You are greatly missed by many.
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01-21-2021, 01:02 PM #2I have been in this State for 30 years and I am willing to admit that I am part of the problem.
"Happiest years of my life were earning < $8.00 and hour, collecting unemployment every spring and fall, no car, no debt and no responsibilities. 1984-1990 Park City UT"
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01-21-2021, 01:44 PM #3
Thanks for the links Bunion. The Baumann avalanche writeup was a good read.
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01-21-2021, 02:20 PM #4
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01-21-2021, 05:27 PM #5
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01-21-2021, 05:42 PM #6off your knees Louie
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01-21-2021, 06:56 PM #8Registered User
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Thanks for the reminder of the date - probably a good time to re-read Ken Wylie's book "Buried". As well, as a snowboarder who grew up idolizing Craig Kelly this one always stood out to me.
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01-21-2021, 07:33 PM #9
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01-21-2021, 09:15 PM #10
Thanks for the post and reminder of that tragic day. A friend and ski partner of mine, Vern Lundsford from Littleton, CO, also died in that avalanche. He left behind a wife and daughter. Vern had wanted to go to SME for years. He finally got his chance when someone dropped out of that trip, and Vern was next on the wait list.
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01-21-2021, 10:57 PM #11
I don't know him. Sorry.
He probably got Kathy's husband's spot.
When I read Buried I was struck by the arrogance of Ruedi Beglinger. He wasn't interested in avalanche forecasts, didn't do any kind of snow analysis--like digging a pit--on his own. Went mainly by his instinct and the way his ski poles felt in the snow. He has continued to insist that the conditions were perfect, that his decisions were completely correct and that the avalanche shouldn't have happened. But it did.
I've never met the man. I know nothing about snow science. Maybe I'm misjudging after reading the book, which is after all written by a man who seems to have been devastated and considerably and permanently affected by the incident, so maybe he's not being fair. I don't know.
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