Pallavicini slides
 

Wow:
http://www.summitdaily.com/article/2.../NEWS/50520002

Planning on going up both days this weekend. It will be interesting
to see what I learn tommorrow. I was thinking this weekend would be
the last weekend for Pali, but maybe that was last weekend. Also
bad news about the East Wall.

Sam "See ya there Sunday for RSA" Seiber

Sam Seiber wrote:
Wow:
http://www.summitdaily.com/article/2.../NEWS/50520002

Planning on going up both days this weekend. It will be interesting
to see what I learn tommorrow. I was thinking this weekend would be
the last weekend for Pali, but maybe that was last weekend. Also
bad news about the East Wall.

You don't hike North Pole with us anyhow... :P



----------------------
Chester

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is
dressed in overalls and looks like work.
- Thomas Edison

Chester Bullock wrote:
You don't hike North Pole with us anyhow... :P

Righty Oh! Plus, it seems the entire East Wall was closed today as
well. Sure makes blowing off the hike a bit easier! Not sure what
is going to be allowed terrain this weekend. After seeing some pics
of the Pali slide, I am REAL SURE I don't wanna be on North Pole.

Sam "Sometimes I am a wuss" Seiber

Sam Seiber wrote:
Chester Bullock wrote:
You don't hike North Pole with us anyhow... :P

Righty Oh! Plus, it seems the entire East Wall was closed today as
well. Sure makes blowing off the hike a bit easier! Not sure what
is going to be allowed terrain this weekend. After seeing some pics
of the Pali slide, I am REAL SURE I don't wanna be on North Pole.

Sam "Sometimes I am a wuss" Seiber

That area is so very, very inbounds. awful.

--
ant
Don't forget to watch Eurovison! Sunday night.

Sam Seiber wrote:

Wow:
http://www.summitdaily.com/article/2.../NEWS/50520002

[snip]

The pictures I have seen haven't revealed much. Was the slide on Pali
or on International? I know the news reports said Pali, but that's also
the name of the lift.

Sam Seiber wrote:
Chester Bullock wrote:

You don't hike North Pole with us anyhow... :P


Righty Oh! Plus, it seems the entire East Wall was closed today as
well. Sure makes blowing off the hike a bit easier! Not sure what
is going to be allowed terrain this weekend. After seeing some pics
of the Pali slide, I am REAL SURE I don't wanna be on North Pole.

Sam "Sometimes I am a wuss" Seiber


Sam - where were you yesterday?

Oh, if anyone wants to see other pics of the slide, I took a couple
yesterday.
http://www.bullockfamily.com/photos/....php3?catid=96

----------------------
Chester

Snowmen fall from Heaven unassembled.

Chester Bullock wrote:
Sam - where were you yesterday?

Oh, if anyone wants to see other pics of the slide, I took a couple
yesterday.
http://www.bullockfamily.com/photos/....php3?catid=96

Broke a fan blade in truck Friday on the way home from work. Took it to
a near by shop, to discover there was no replacement in Denver. Seems
Nebraska has one. Still don't know when it will arrive at the shop.
So...... I had to sit this last weekend out.

Sam "Thanks for posting the pictures" Seiber

Sam Seiber wrote:
Chester Bullock wrote:

Sam - where were you yesterday?

Oh, if anyone wants to see other pics of the slide, I took a couple
yesterday.
http://www.bullockfamily.com/photos/....php3?catid=96


Broke a fan blade in truck Friday on the way home from work. Took it to
a near by shop, to discover there was no replacement in Denver. Seems
Nebraska has one. Still don't know when it will arrive at the shop.
So...... I had to sit this last weekend out.

You need a spare parts truck sitting in the side yard...

rumpius wrote:
The pictures I have seen haven't revealed much. Was the slide on
Pali
or on International? I know the news reports said Pali, but that's
also
the name of the lift.

As posted over in rec.skiing.alpine:
From
http://www.firsttracksonline.com/news/stories/111687474972399.shtm:


The avalanche occurred in an area known as the 1st Alley, immediately
below the roll on the west side of the Pallavicini Run.
.. . .
The avalanche has been classified by the Colorado Avalanche Information

Center as a WS-AS-2-O/G. It released at treeline with the initial
fracture of 1.5 to 2 feet deep, the Center reports, but as the wet slab

moved down the mountain in places it plowed to the ground releasing
snow about four feet in depth. The debris was wet, heavy, and deep.
Rescuers said that in places their 10-foot probes could not touch the
ground. The slide has been estimated at about 250 feet across and
running about 500 vertical feet on the north-facing slope.
.. . .
"It's been a big deal around here. Inbounds on an open trail, with big
moguls on it. It seems really unusual, and it is," said Matt Duffy, a
First Tracks!! Online Ski Magazine contributing writer and Summit
County resident. "We've been going through quite a warm spell. The
temperature has not dropped to freezing since May 18. It hasn't even
been below 40ºF overnight at the peaks. Naturals have ran everywhere,
some of them pretty big. Two or three days prior to the fatal A-basin
avy, some people triggered one in Silver Couloir on Buffalo Mountain.
That one, as was the A-basin slide, was a wet slab release. Not the
same as a typical wet slide, which is basically heavy sloughing that
usually originates in areas of thin cover or from below rocks that heat

up in the sun," Duffy continued. "It was pretty wide, too. It went from

Pali Main Street into First Alley and ran all the way to the traverse
back near the bottom. It's fan climbed up and over the opposite side of

the gully. Anyone who's been there probably just gulped, because that's

pretty huge for an in-bounds May avalanche in a mogul field."
--

rumpius wrote:

Sam Seiber wrote:

Wow:
http://www.summitdaily.com/article/2.../NEWS/50520002


[snip]

The pictures I have seen haven't revealed much. Was the slide on Pali
or on International? I know the news reports said Pali, but that's also
the name of the lift.

From this story: http://www.summitdaily.com/article/2.../NEWS/50520002

"Friday's slide occurred about 10:30 a.m. The 300-foot slide fractured
just above the First Alley trail, skier's left of the Pallavicini Lift."