Avalanche pictures - everyone needs to see these

I took a level one course many years ago in Leysins, Switzerland, and loved it. It was a weekend course, with lots of backcountry skiing in between the snow science parts. We played the backpack tranciever burial game, which is much tougher than you'd guess. I recommend it to anyone else, not just to be far safer, but because I found it really fun to learn.
 
Those Baker photos are unreal. So much power.

Let's expand this to the Right Coast.

http://vimeo.com/19883129

Been a few close calls on Washington this year too. Pretty reasonably sized slide few weeks back where the skier was fortunate to be able to get to the surface as the slide came to a rest and made it out just shaken up.

Just remember, we are just tenents here and mother nature ALWAYS wins.
 
Wise words, just because you are in the trees doesn't mean you're safe. Also, NARSIDs are always lurking, regardless of avy danger. Ski with a buddy, maintain line of sight.
 
anyone know where to find the the video from Bobby Burns from earlier this year? I tried finding it a few weeks ago, but I think CMH took it off the net... at least that's what I would assume happened.
 
East Coast
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hahahh really bro? cause i saw that posted all over facebook. highly doubt this was you on the trip and filming.

calling major bullshit you bro
 
that scares the shit out of me, ive been at vail the past week and skied the same stuff, fresh pow but not out of bounds. i wasnt by myself, but when in the woods you tend to break off from the group ( which i did every time), scary shit
 
ummm... yeah and? i mean scary experience, but hardly anything i would think someone was going to be dead on especially being in the best spot for that situation.
 
so... if i'm seeing this right, your friend went out onto an overhanging cornice and you just stood there and took is picture?

interesting.
 
Youtube "avalanche from hell" or just watch a bunch of old snowmobile teasers to see some terrible backcountry travel ediquette.
 
that was such a fucking good year. so much snow in march. what was it 68" in 1 night or something. my parents let my two brothers skip school but not me because i had a fucking math test that we ended up not doing. /claim
 
you shoulda seen that crown in person man. un-fucking-real. so amazing no one was caught in this slide.
 
I might be hitting up steven's over thanksgiving break. Its an hour and a half from stanwood, just like Mt Baker. Baker has the more dependable early season snow, right? This is my first time out west, and I'm pumped for my first full season after 2.5 years off.
 
First off, +K to the OP for making a thread that could help backcountry skiers.

OP--- Do you know how deep the crown was on the Bakers slide? Thats gotta be 20-30 ft deep.
 
Heather Canyon at Meadows has had two MASSIVE slides in two years. Be careful in there. I saw the debris field from the 2009 slide and couldn't even believe it had been caused by an avalanche. That thing could have swallowed 20 school buses whole.

link with more photos and info from the 2010 Superbowl/Heather slide: http://www.skihood.com/Community-and-News/Meadows-Blog/Posts/2011/03/Ski-Patrol-Investigates-Avalanche?c=129655337615830000

I think the point of this thread is that even if you're skiing in-bounds, you and your buddies can still die in an avalanche. Get informed, take a course, get gear and know how to use it, and use common sense - in the backcountry and everywhere on the mountain.

 


not sure if it's been posted yet - figured this was an appropriate thread for it. Footage from today, Blackcomb slack country.
 
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I think this post should include some dead bodies if your goal is to encourage people to ski smart in the backcountry.
 
I don't do any skiing out of bounds really but say classic mt. baker snow fell on that part thats already slid and built up, could it possibly slide again?
 
It absolutely could slide again. The surface of the layer that the snow slid on was probably a deep hoar frost layer or facets. They act like ball bearings under stress and the snow on top slides off. If new snow falls on top of these facets again, it can definitely slide a second time.

This has actually been happening at Whistler this year. Zones that slid 2 weeks ago slid again after the next storm 7-10 days later. These slopes "reload" with new snow on the bad layer and are still dangerous and unstable.
 
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