Big Slide on Mt Washington

1-3' and around 400' wide. Big for Eastern US standards.

Experienced skier was the one involved.
 
Experience gets you into dangerous places sometimes. I was just reading this guy's multiple Mt Washington TRs over at TGR yesterday and how much he pushes going up there so often, even in poor conditions.

Play with fire enough, and it will burn you.

Having said that, there's a good chance I'll be skiing in the Pres' saturday morning. I am at least as nervous with eastern snowpack as I am with Wyoming's (where I have more BC experience). Tonight's higher peaks forecast for the whites mentions 115mph gusts. After that dimishes from 80mph the next day, I'm hoping things release natural and/or settle during the later part of the week... so my crew can squeeze a shot in before the next mixed bag of tricks arrives Saturday evening. It's the real deal. (There's also a chance I'll just go kick it in NYC this weekend and wait it out.)
 
Experience can definitely get you in deeper than being inexperienced.

I get what you're saying, but at the same time, even the best get bit on occasion. We've seen some of the sports best take rides when getting caught in situations where they thought they were good.

For what it's worth too, New England is seeing a squall line of snow with rapidly dropping temperatures today. More dust on crust with high winds. Don't expect instabilities to disappear anytime soon with the rollercoaster of weather conditions we have been having.
 
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there's actually a pretty "funny" statistic out there that shows that the more avalanche certifications a person has the higher the chance of them dying in an avalanche are.

"We" always joke around saying that we would be better off with no training or certs because statistically there's a lesser chance something bad would happen.
 
my uncle and cousin have skied it, and he's really trying to get me up there. it seems like a really good time.
 
I wanna do tucks in the spring, however, I'd love to see someone ski it on a january powder day, it'd be so epic pov, if they had a becaon and everything.
 
went up two weekends ago but winds were gust well over 100 so we couldn't summit or even go into the bowl because of high avalanche danger but the guy there told us that two days before tat he was skiing down from the summit in a t-shirt.
 
exactly. i went up 3 weeks ago and it was wild up there. its seriously another world and people dismiss it as being just another eastern mountain, (i.e lame and tame). the reality is the weather is anything but predictable and the ravine is incredibly dangerous if you dont know what your doing. snow gets crazy up there and it is drastically safer in late spring/early summer. its an amazing experience though going up there
 
you have to have a warm blue bird day tho, and warmer. it helps burn the wind crust off because its usually really windy up there.
 
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