inbounds avi at holiday valley?!

[rgrwilco]

http://www.holidayvalley.com/news.cfm?story=206

 

well its not that big, but interesting none the less

Edited February 1, 2007 by Dirt McGirt

[kragan]

How bad must the snow making crew be to blow so much snow to create unsafe skiing conditions. Props to the ski patrol for recognizing the potential danger, especailly an east coast patrol that does not deal with avi stuff very often.

[method9455]

Yea I was reading about this on another forum and a guy listed this happening like 10 times. Usually it happens if there is thin natural snowfall but enough to cover the grass/brush, so total like a foot of fresh, then they try to blow enough wet snow on top to have a base. On a steep enough slope the basebuilding snow on top will break the real stuff free and it all slides down the hill. Its pretty similiar to how avalanches out west happen early season when the lower layers are weak and then a big wet storm comes along.

[bbg]

It is a wonderful thing that the patrollers here on the East Coast can recognize and close down unsafe terrain.

 

Just a little FYI for everyone on here, Ski Patrollers on the East Coast attend seminars and clinics to become certified by the National Ski Patrol in Avalanche Fundamentals, Avalanche I, and Avalanche II. (The same training West Coast Patrollers Receive). Unlike the West Coast Patrollers here on the East Coast those courses are not mandatory. But it is very rare that a patroller would not continue his or her training with the NSP's Continuing Ed. Programs. Every Patroller strives to become as well informed and trained as possible to better serve the skiing and riding public. It's great we have them, and it's great that almost all of patrollers in the US are volunteers out of the about 27,500 National Ski Patrollers here in the US.(Not that the paid ones aren't GREAT, we are lucky to have them too, it's just great to see how many volunteer)

 

They are passionate about what they do.

Edited February 4, 2007 by bbg

[romemadman]

this has happened before

there used to be a picture of another avi a a few years ago

[AtomicSkier]

uh oh, im gunna start bringing my probe, beacon and shovel to blue cause Challange is almost 40 degrees!

[rgrwilco]

We should build a snowpit next to Challenge to check the stability of the snowpack..

 

10 from the wrist, 10 from the arm, 10 from the shoulda'. could probobly get a decent column out of a pit on challenge.