Post control slide at Mammoth, and how TGR may have saved my life

Glad to here you are O.K. Hutash.Took this pic Monday.
http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p...-25-08/062.jpg

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Originally Posted by Gebster

Any relation to the Joey Bag O' Donuts avitar?

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Do I look Chinese ass neck? ;)

Damn. I saw it from 395 on the way to June yesterday morning. It also looked like most of 9 slid.

Way to think quickly.

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Originally Posted by Joey Bag O' Donuts

Do I look Chinese ass neck? ;)

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Nope, but then you don't really look like your avitar. Hopefully BB won't see this and come up with a new nickname...being called snaggle tooth is enough

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Originally Posted by TWINS

Glad to here you are O.K. Hutash.Took this pic Monday.
http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p...-25-08/062.jpg

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So what set this off, the bomb above, or the ski cut? If it was the cut, who ever made it must have had to change shorts:eek:

That is a pretty big crown, must had made for some fun drops when they opened it.:D

I don't know if it was post-control but there was this thoroughly-youtube'd avalanche at Alta last year, that chased a skier down a run.

More angles: http://www.youtube.com/results?searc...e&search_type=

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Originally Posted by hutash

Nearly all of the runs off the top had control releases Saturday mourning, so it was obviously unstable. D2 did not slide, but it is much narrower, and has several large rocks that act to anchor it. It was ski cut multiple times with no cracking et cetera. The four boarders that set it off all hit the trigger zone at the same time. (The trigger zone for all the controlled slides were 10-20 off the top, and this was no different.)

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First off, thanks for the post and good job on your actions.

Newb question here, I don't know the terrain at all as I've never been to Mammoth, but in what situations do rock features act as anchors vs weak points in the snow pack? I learned in Avi 1 that depth changes in the snowpack around large rocks can be weak/release points, but I've also read info where they can anchor a snowpack. Does it depend on the type of slope (e.g. concave/convex, hanging etc).

Thanks

I rode from the main (side) entrance of Chamoix down through the choke and out into the middle of the bowl a few years ago; it definitely made me more diligent...