Avalanche at The Canyons

I just heard about it on the radio. They said it was a "major"
avalanche, and that at least one person is believed to be "trapped". I
I don't know whether it was an avalanche onto buildings, or on an open
slope.

Dave

Dave Stallard wrote:
I just heard about it on the radio. They said it was a "major"
avalanche, and that at least one person is believed to be "trapped". I
I don't know whether it was an avalanche onto buildings, or on an open
slope.

Dave

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6827473/

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Chester Bullock,
"What happens if a big asteroid hits Earth? Judging from a
realistic simulation involving a big hammer and a laboratory frog,
we can assume it will be pretty bad." - Dave Barry

Another news article, one of many to follow.
http://www.sltrib.com/nationworld/ci_2525143

TexasSkiNut wrote:
Another news article, one of many to follow.
http://www.sltrib.com/nationworld/ci_2525143

You can link to live video he

http://kutv.com/topstories/local_story_014161347.html

-klaus

"Chester Bullock" wrote in message
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Dave Stallard wrote:
I just heard about it on the radio. They said it was a "major"
avalanche, and that at least one person is believed to be "trapped". I
I don't know whether it was an avalanche onto buildings, or on an open
slope.

Dave

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6827473/

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Chester Bullock,
"What happens if a big asteroid hits Earth? Judging from a
realistic simulation involving a big hammer and a laboratory frog,
we can assume it will be pretty bad." - Dave Barry

When you get to the top of the 9990 lift at the Canyons, you have to go
through a gate labeled "back country entrance, not patrolled, enter at your
own risk, danger will Robinson, death to smoochy, YOU WILL DIE"...

Having said that though, tons of people go through the gate, climb the 50
yards or so up the walkway, and ski the bowl. I think that the fact that
the gate is right next to the lift and the bowl drains right back into the
resort gives people a sense of faux security though. Latest news (as of
3:15 PM MST) is no bodies found, one person identified as dead (based on
witness with him and the fact he never turned up) apparently a snowboarder
from Montana in his mid 20s. I skied the Canyons today and it appeared for
all the world as if nothing had happened, with the exception that 9990 was
closed except to rescue workers.

"SkiFastBadly" wrote in message
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"Chester Bullock" wrote in message
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Dave Stallard wrote:
I just heard about it on the radio. They said it was a "major"
avalanche, and that at least one person is believed to be "trapped". I
I don't know whether it was an avalanche onto buildings, or on an open
slope.

Dave

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6827473/

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Chester Bullock,
"What happens if a big asteroid hits Earth? Judging from a
realistic simulation involving a big hammer and a laboratory frog,
we can assume it will be pretty bad." - Dave Barry

When you get to the top of the 9990 lift at the Canyons, you have to go
through a gate labeled "back country entrance, not patrolled, enter at
your own risk, danger will Robinson, death to smoochy, YOU WILL DIE"...

Having said that though, tons of people go through the gate, climb the 50
yards or so up the walkway, and ski the bowl. I think that the fact that
the gate is right next to the lift and the bowl drains right back into the
resort gives people a sense of faux security though. Latest news (as of
3:15 PM MST) is no bodies found, one person identified as dead (based on
witness with him and the fact he never turned up) apparently a snowboarder
from Montana in his mid 20s. I skied the Canyons today and it appeared
for all the world as if nothing had happened, with the exception that 9990
was closed except to rescue workers.

Another website with pics of the gate with the skull and crossbones and You
Can Die! . I was in that bowl last year, but only after talking to the ski
patrol about avalanche conditions. It was a massive slide that looks like
it took most all of the bowl from both sides and funneled it into the runout
at the bottom. The bowl drains through the trees right back to the 9990
lift. Scary. Hope the numbers of people caught is low.

http://tv.ksl.com/index.php?sid=144842&nid=5

AstroPax wrote:
Accident report (provisional):


http://www.avalanche.org/%7Euac/Advi...%201-14-04.htm

-Astro

Welcome to natural selection. It's good we have these occassional
avalanches to thin the herd of idiots who ignore the signs and the
warnings and blithely go off-piste: Improves the gene pool for those
remaining.
Those who survive such events and the families left behind should be
charged the cost of the expensive rescue efforts undertaken on their
retarded behalf. Why should my tax money be spent to look for a handful
of willfully ignorant morons?

"Natural Selection Rules!" wrote in message
ups.com...


Welcome to natural selection. It's good we have these occassional
avalanches to thin the herd of idiots who ignore the signs and the
warnings and blithely go off-piste: Improves the gene pool for those
remaining.
Those who survive such events and the families left behind should be
charged the cost of the expensive rescue efforts undertaken on their
retarded behalf. Why should my tax money be spent to look for a handful
of willfully ignorant morons?

I just hope he had his helmet on. At least that made him extreme.