Massive avy in bounds Mount Hood Meadows

**Edgnar** · 01-19-2010, 06:46 PM

HOLY SHIT! Wow, that thing is scary!

**::: :::** · 01-19-2010, 07:16 PM

bdb3011 - are you on patrol?

**inthemtns** · 01-19-2010, 08:36 PM

Originally Posted by bdb3011

Here's a very general overview for y'all:

Crown - 1 to 4 feet. 3/4 of a mile wide.

Track - Avalanche ran for 2.7 miles. Coming to rest 200 yards or so from the bottom of the Heather Chair.

Deposition - Anwhere from 15 to 30 feet Deep in places. ( Estimate )

Hard Slab - Class 4 relative to Path - Destructive force 4

A biggin for sure!

Those are some amazing stats for an on area slide!

**powski3** · 01-19-2010, 08:52 PM

So was the crown all the way up on Wy East face?

**ski_pdx** · 01-20-2010, 01:17 AM

think of the insane park features they could carve out of that. every film crew would need a heather segment this spring.

*freeskier · 01-20-2010, 02:38 AM

Originally Posted by powski3

So was the crown all the way up on Wy East face?

yeah, you could see the crown all the way across wyeast. Some of it headed towards the cascade chair, but stopped well above it. The rest hauled ass down Clark canyon and stopped just above the bottom of the heather chair.

**inbetweenstance** · 01-20-2010, 08:37 AM

reminds me of that big one that went about 4 years ago at bachelor. It slid in the night, but took out almost the whole bowl, traveled up hill slightly and then ran out down past the base of the summit chair. pretty scary stuff.