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I know this is completely irrelevant to a skier-triggered avalanche inbounds within a ski area ...
but now I'm really curious about any event in recent history that actually shut down Highway 50 for 3 entire days - natural or artificially triggered - and I am being really unsuccessful with the right Google parameters. The only thing I could find was the huge landslide in April 1983, which does not sound anything like what m85a53 is talking about.
I haven't come across anything like this in my research...I do have weather maps made for all California avalanche fatalities from ~1950 to present, but those have only a date associated with them (no location, no other information).
Back on topic, the meteorology leading up to the Donner event was described in an article of The Avalanche Review on page 28:
http://www.americanavalancheassociat...April_2014.pdf
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Originally Posted by SchralphMacchio
Stumbled upon this thread whilst researching the DSR avy and the fallout/result of the event.
What I find the most interesting (and am surprised that nobody else caught this) about m85a53's post is why the fuck was a resident of Donner Summit going home via Hwy 50?
80 closes with 50 staying open fairly commonly. But then they also used to let residents onto Old 40 ...
It’s not like that was the weirdest thing about that post.Quote:
Originally Posted by dookey67
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Originally Posted by Meadow Skipper
Jesus, what a weird, depressing thread. I really hope it’s not true that he was underneath the snowcat tracks that removed the debris.
sounds like he was talking about a fatal skier-triggered avalanche above Hwy 50 that damaged houses and closed the road for days. Does anyone remember that event? I've been around the area since 1976 and don't recall hearing about it; I'm sure it must have made the news--maybe before the internet, since a google search turns up nothing.Quote:
Originally Posted by dookey67