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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 |
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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/ ---------------------- 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 |
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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 |
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"Chester Bullock" wrote in message ... 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/ ---------------------- 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. |
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"SkiFastBadly" wrote in message ... "Chester Bullock" wrote in message ... 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/ ---------------------- 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 |
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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? |
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"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. |
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