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Thread: 10420 Slide
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11-19-2006, 06:01 PM #1
10420 Slide
First hand account of avie on 10420 from 11/18:
A group of 5 of us were skinning up theridge, myself and one other were up on the ridge while the other 3 were skinning up on the side of a small bowl in the trees. A very loud crack started fom the ridge line and travelled down the slope, fracturing the bowl at a depth of 18-24 inches and about 100 feet wide. I personally felt a collapse of a bout 6 inches while on the ridge. A shooting crack went into the trees and followed our skin track.
We intentionally triggered a similar slide just to the east of the above.
Bottom line is be careful out there. The shallow pack is no bueno for just the lack of coverage.
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11-19-2006, 09:21 PM #2
Was it the bowl northeast of the ridgeline that slid? Glad all are ok.
"The challenge is to be yourself in a world that is trying to make you like everyone else" Jamie Pierre
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11-20-2006, 09:08 AM #3
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11-26-2006, 11:20 PM #4"In the woods, we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life, — no disgrace, no calamity, (leaving me my eyes,) which nature cannot repair." -Emerson
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