Slide took out chair 6 at Crystal? Any details?
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Slide took out chair 6 at Crystal? Any details?
Some pics in the pnw threadQuote:
Originally Posted by AlpenChronicHabitual
holy shit.
so what happens after something like that? they have to take everything down in the spring and retest all the towers and rebuild? is that covered by insurance?
also, could they not have foreseen that and done some kind of avalanche mitigation before it got that huge?
Over heard "oops [comma] fuck"...Quote:
Originally Posted by spook
They control it just a shitty snowpack/weather year for the PNWQuote:
Originally Posted by spook
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Couple more photos from a friends Facebook account... Wow!
According to Crystal Mountain Facebook page:
Slide was at 4:45pm, after close. No injuries. Patrol tossed bombs and the whole hill slid.
Crystal will soon be selling old individual chairs to collectors. They plan to replace the lift with "something like the Northway lift."
Wow. Headed there Friday with family for Buddies. Guess we won't be hiking the King this weekend.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yxi8aWWg3n0
control work the day before!!!
Rust in Pieces old friend, you will be missed.
Sorta like hereQuote:
Originally Posted by AlpenChronicHabitual
I don't know any Russian, but pretty sure "oh Fuck!" was uttered somewhere
just wow. definitely glad no one was hurt.
Me too. That hike just got a whole lot longer.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Duke of Hurl
They were planning on replacing the old double this summer anyway, correct?
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The Crown...
wow some of that video had some huge chunks of snow. since i've never been, the video made it a lot bigger than i realized from the pics.
hard to believe the lift shack is still standing at all
Just goes to show, you can't control the avalanche, but the avalanche will control you.
Very cool article from the perspective of the trollers who set off that slide. Plus some video of the first troller to realize that the slide took out ch 6... http://kimkircher.com/2014/03/12/wha...h-a-chairlift/
Note the expression of Kim in the middle:
http://kimkircher.files.wordpress.co...-avalanche.jpg
A pic from Tuesday, looking up into C-Basin from below the debris field.
Unlikely they are going to be able to run a groomer over this to flatten it out. Buldozer time?
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That's a groomer track in the lower leftQuote:
Originally Posted by TomK
Since they can't run the chair why even bother? I would think they'd just let it melt, or at least wait until they actually need to remove the old lift.
Read that they are just going to leave it closed for the rest of the season.
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troller on the left is a babe
Vintage High Campbell warning sign from the archives. RIP #6.
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It will be interesting to see if the replacement lift's base unit and Tower 1 will be located in the same spot or whether Kircher will move it to a safer location.
Interesting, are they talking about the bowl that slid and surrounding terrain all being double black diamond and "like nothing you've skied before"? That sure doesn't look very intimidating.
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Originally Posted by skimaxpower
Guess which one threw the bomb???Quote:
Originally Posted by Buster Highmen
Guess which two don't own a ski resort that just had a lift demolished unintentionally.
The three lovely ladies above gave a great speech yesterday at the NSAW event. They broke down the snowpack history and the events leading up to the big slide. Very cool for the snow nerds.
So did anyone ask THE QUESTION.
"if you had to do it over again would you have sat on the area and not performed Hazard Mitigation?"
Having actually discussed that question a few times their consensus seems to be that they're glad they didn't sit on the hazard.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bunion
classic Dick Cheney response.Quote:
Originally Posted by PNWbrit
PNWbrit just wants Kim to sit on his hazard.
Someone did ask and the answer was they would follow the same process again and drop the bombs. Someone also asked if their insurer paid for the new lift and the answer was "not as much as we wanted". They also said the debris traveled 600' further than any previous event at that location. And the final question was - did the new lift get installed in the exact same location? Answer was yes as well. Pretty good presentation on conditions leading up to the event for us laymen.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bunion
The photos remind me of that big wet slide under the old Alpine lift at Bridger a few years ago. I think that was caused by a rain storm and triggered naturally though.
What did they replace it with? Another double or an improvement?
A new heavier and less troublesome double.Quote:
Originally Posted by neufox47
Cable was spliced this weekend.
I'd imagine that moving it would involve significant and lengthy permitting and enviro-mentally issues.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bronco