East Coast Avy?

They do happen in the east. A while ago in Quebec there were two kids killed in an avalanche when they were tobogganing in a quarry. Chic Chocs have them regularly.
 
also not that anyone skis there but the Torngat Mountains probably have some crazy avalanches. They're my goal. One day I'll ski them. The ultimate in east coast skiing.
 
Tuckerman’s revine has some super serious avys all the time. That’s why you can only ski it at the end of the season
 
holiday valley has had avalanches from snowmaking piles on the wall... idk how you can mess up that bad
 
13904941:VinnieF said:
also not that anyone skis there but the Torngat Mountains probably have some crazy avalanches. They're my goal. One day I'll ski them. The ultimate in east coast skiing.
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That place just got bumped to the top of the dream trip list.
 
13904949:Gperry said:
Tuckerman’s revine has some super serious avys all the time. That’s why you can only ski it at the end of the season
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You can ski it any time of the winter, just like anything else, conditions dependent.
 
13904941:VinnieF said:
also not that anyone skis there but the Torngat Mountains probably have some crazy avalanches. They're my goal. One day I'll ski them. The ultimate in east coast skiing.
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13904998:Smart-Skis said:
That place just got bumped to the top of the dream trip list.
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I know for a fact that people have skied the Torngats, but honestly I think the chic-chocs are probably the ultimate in east coast skiing. It snows less in the Torngats, the weather is notoriously brutal year-round, there are polar bears everywhere that might kill you, and they're super hard to access. I dreamed of skiing there for many years but the more research I've done the less appealing it seems.
 
13905182:BASEDJAH said:
I know for a fact that people have skied the Torngats, but honestly I think the chic-chocs are probably the ultimate in east coast skiing. It snows less in the Torngats, the weather is notoriously brutal year-round, there are polar bears everywhere that might kill you, and they're super hard to access. I dreamed of skiing there for many years but the more research I've done the less appealing it seems.
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I too have had the Torngats on my dream ski list for many years. And every time I look them up again I get more itchy to go. There's actually a lot more information on them now then last time I looked.

And yea, people have skied there. But not enough to say that people ski there.

Not that either of us have been there, but the terrain looks unreal. Way better than anything else east coast. And as for snow, from what I can find they get 15-20 feet on average which is the same as the Chic Chocs. And it stays far more consistently cold. And there are no weather stations way up in the mountain to say for sure how much they get. It may be way more than the coastal towns where the weather stations are.

Access and the cold are the main issues for sure. But those don't make it any less appealing for a crazy ski expedition.

Let me again point out how crazy the terrain looks.

And polar bears make it far more bad-ass.
 
13905218:VinnieF said:
And it stays far more consistently cold.
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is this a problem in the chic chocs though? The time I went it was brutally cold and it didn't seem like it was out of the norm. Plus super cold doesn't always mean lots of snow. The chic chocs actually get less snow if the st. lawrence freezes over because they stop getting sea effect, and the ocean is frozen for eight months of the year in the Torngats.
 
13905220:BASEDJAH said:
is this a problem in the chic chocs though? The time I went it was brutally cold and it didn't seem like it was out of the norm. Plus super cold doesn't always mean lots of snow. The chic chocs actually get less snow if the st. lawrence freezes over because they stop getting sea effect, and the ocean is frozen for eight months of the year in the Torngats.
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Actually less an less is the sea frozen off the coast of Labrador. 8 months doesn't happen any more. A few months at most on average and even then it's only just the first few hundred km. Either way they still get at least as much snow (minus uncertainty of how much it actually get up in the mountains and not on the coast).

That's fine though. If you think it's shit then don't go. Some day I will. And it will be fantastic and epic and I'll have skied better lines than is even close to possible anywhere else in eastern North America.
 
13905218:VinnieF said:
I too have had the Torngats on my dream ski list for many years. And every time I look them up again I get more itchy to go. There's actually a lot more information on them now then last time I looked.

And yea, people have skied there. But not enough to say that people ski there.

Not that either of us have been there, but the terrain looks unreal. Way better than anything else east coast. And as for snow, from what I can find they get 15-20 feet on average which is the same as the Chic Chocs. And it stays far more consistently cold. And there are no weather stations way up in the mountain to say for sure how much they get. It may be way more than the coastal towns where the weather stations are.

Access and the cold are the main issues for sure. But those don't make it any less appealing for a crazy ski expedition.

Let me again point out how crazy the terrain looks.

And polar bears make it far more bad-ass.
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how do you even get there?
 
13904993:The.Fish said:
holiday valley has had avalanches from snowmaking piles on the wall... idk how you can mess up that bad
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Yeah, I think it's happened more than once but this was the bigger one.
 
13905227:jlens05 said:
Yeah, I think it's happened more than once but this was the bigger one.
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Are they rescuing someone? If not why are so many people just standing around when that massive block of probably 500 tons of near ice is just sitting there above them already cracked and ready to release at any time.
 
13905277:VinnieF said:
Are they rescuing someone? If not why are so many people just standing around when that massive block of probably 500 tons of near ice is just sitting there above them already cracked and ready to release at any time.
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Idk wtf they're doing, but its a fuckin stupid ass place to stand
 
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