From Kevin Quinn's FB page (I think it's public so you should be able to see it
https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net...40565418_o.jpg
the rest of the pics
https://www.facebook.com/KQuinnPNH/p...02?pnref=story
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From Kevin Quinn's FB page (I think it's public so you should be able to see it
https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net...40565418_o.jpg
the rest of the pics
https://www.facebook.com/KQuinnPNH/p...02?pnref=story
Holy fuck!
did they use a drone to get this picture?
I doubt it. He operates Points North Heli so most likely zoomed from the heli or fixed wing
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Originally Posted by powdork
okay. anything but climbing it, right?
Would you call that an avalanche or some kind of glacial phenomenon? Calving?
Definitely glacial. Snow avys don't scour the ground like that unless under really special circumstances (moist ground, certainly nowhere near ice). Impressive.Quote:
Originally Posted by panchosdad
Reminds me of this ... although that one is snow and this one is rock. Equally impressive.
http://www.livescience.com/43632-mas...in-alaska.html
http://eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images...li_2014054.jpg
http://eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images...li_2013147.jpg
i commented on the photo. the crown propagates off the glacier . Hard to tell if the serac fall triggered adjoining slope or the snow triggered the serac fall. Kevin posted the standing tower is 150 ft tall. the horizontal lines are definitely in the ice. The la perouse and mt steele slides were caused by water running under the ice into the bed rock weakening the rock through freezing and thawing.
Except glide avalanches, which were having a lot of this year in AK too, just to be picky...Quote:
Originally Posted by angrysasquatch
Interesting, similar deal here in the Chilkat Range this year. Glacial for sure, I may have a close-up I'll look if anyone it interested. Think it's the same process as you mentioned.Quote:
Originally Posted by BFD
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i'm interestedQuote:
Originally Posted by Z
This one's pretty big too. Hope they didn't leave their packs at the bottom of the climb
http://www.zapiks.fr/spectaculaire-avalanche-de-p.html
150'?? I was being generous at 45' when wishing for any one dimension just to understand the scale. Largest I've ever seen, photo or otherwise. The volume must have been pretty intense.Quote:
Originally Posted by BFD
are you talking about long digits again?
here is a link to an event last october in Icy Bay. created its own tsunami.http://www.adn.com/article/20151218/...t-recent-years
cool picture from Haines. Where is that at?
Saksaia glacier up near the border. We call the area krapshoot.Quote:
Originally Posted by BFD
Heli pilots view, not zoomed, hovering over the top.Quote:
Originally Posted by powdork
I was able to see this aftermath 1st hand & made me fell very small.
The pinnacle fell the next storm cycle. It stayed very active shedding till the end of the season.
There was an absurdly large ice avalanche in Tibet in July, killed 9 people and a lot of livestock.
http://www.cesbio.ups-tlse.fr/multit...08/dongru2.gif
https://josephmichaelshea.wordpress....betan-plateau/
http://www.nature.com/news/giant-dea...rchers-1.20471
Swim to Top that kinda slide! I dare yaQuote:
Originally Posted by powdork