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[Buster Highmen]

Coverage:
http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic29087.jpg

Velocity Basin, Silverton, CO.

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Coverage:
http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic29087.jpg

Velocity Basin, Silverton, CO.

beautiful........is that where the speed trials used to take place?

[Mcwop]

That really hurts. Being stuck here in Baltimore, looking at all the snow somewhere else. Anticipating the season. Gym tonight - so that I can cope.

Either way this is a stoke post Buster.

[Pinner]

Yeah BOY!!!



Careful out there.

[Buster Highmen]

beautiful........is that where the speed trials used to take place?

That picture is lower RopedeeDope. I think the speed skiing was done further up the basin, viewer's left in the Main Couloir below Storm Peak.

[Pinner]

is that where the speed trials used to take place?

Check out the pitch at the head of the basin.
http://www.silvertonmountain.com/alb.../aap.sized.jpg

[Buster Highmen]

Word is some big ones, class 3 or 4, were releasing last week.

Word is also that the coverage is over 10 feet deep of dense base up off the top, sticking to the cliffs. Sounds like a great base.

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Check out the pitch at the head of the basin.
http://www.silvertonmountain.com/alb.../aap.sized.jpg

you mean directly below those cliff bands???

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pinner what time zone are you in

[365wp]

Silverton Mini?

[Tiny]

Word is some big ones, class 3 or 4, were releasing last week.

Word is also that the coverage is over 10 feet deep of dense base up off the top, sticking to the cliffs.

Word is someone gotten taken for a big ride last week.

[Yossarian]

Word is someone gotten taken for a big ride last week.

Words like that should be substantiated.

Words like that should also be followed by, "I sure hope everyone involved came through okay."

[Tiny]

Words like that should be substantiated.

Words like that should also be followed by, "I sure hope everyone involved came through okay."

Word is that someone should get off their high horse.

[Yossarian]

I am no one, and I am fully aware of this.

If you know of slide activity that may have involved people, why in the world wouldn't you give details on how, where, when, in what conditions, on what aspects, and at what elevations (etc, etc) it happened, and WHY WOULDN'T YOU LET THIS COMMUNITY OF SKIERS AND SNOWBOARDERS KNOW IF ONE OF THEIR BRETHREN WAS INJURED OR NOT?"

Fuck you for your glib attitude with an issue as serious as this.

We should all be reporting our encounters with the snowpack for the education and benefit of others, for their safety as well as our own. Unless you are an alias of an existing poster, you would seem to be new around here, in which case I'll take this opportunity to distinguish this board from others as a place populated by real people, who spend their time together in the mountains, at each others homes, helping in time of need, and celebrating in time of joy. Yeah, we spray at each other plenty too, but it's only because lots of us have desk jobs that keep us in front of the interweb when we'd rather be skiing.

So.

To re-iterate. Engage in legitimate dialogue if you're going enter on a topic as serious as avalanche activity, or fuck off. Alternatively, if glib is all you can do, how about you stick to the subjects that aren't life and death? That works too. I pass no judgement other than my own, which is worth 1/nth of a community made up of n-1 other members here, not more, not less. And I judge on the basis of only that which you present, which thus far, hasn't impressed me much. So, how about you start talking and change my mind?


Sorry for the rant in your pretty thread Buster. I'll see you in Silverton this winter.

[Tiny]

Didn't read all your rant there, little fella,
but usually if someone wants to know more, they respond with "Didn't know that. Do you have more any info..."

instead, with you, its "Let ME tell YOU how and what to think."
Pompous jerk.

[Yossarian]

Do you have any more info on the slide of which you speak?

I'd love to hear more, perhaps you can leave me some informative words for when I return from skiing tomorrow am - can't wait for them right now, gots to get to sleep.

By the way, you will see that people get just what they deserve around here. I responded fully in-kind to your first post; go back and read what you wrote and imagine how it sounded to someone who doesn't know you. I am no more a pompous jerk than you, although that may mean we're both pompous jerks.

You will, case in point, notice that now that you've actually written something vaguely pleasant (well, closer, anyway, save for the pompous jerk thing), I am taking the time to respond in the same coin!

We have people from this community that are in SW CO quite frequently. Any information you can share would be appreciated, I'm sure.

[Yossarian]

Didn't read all your rant there, little fella...

Heh. I do still find this a bit ironic though, don't you? Goodnight, Tiny.

Kisses,
Cletus

[Tiny]

Do you have any more info on the slide of which you speak?

Sort of old news. Happened last week. Apparrently it broke below the cliff bands on the Velocity side of the back cirque, and caught a guy while he was ascending. He got trundled down a few hundred feet over the shallow snow and scree.

Don't really want to say much more; giving "advice" over the internet is not a good idea IMHO.

[Yossarian]

Sort of old news. Happened last week. Apparrently it broke below the cliff bands on the Velocity side of the back cirque, and caught a guy while he was ascending. He got trundled down a few hundred feet over the shallow snow and scree.

Don't really want to say much more; giving "advice" over the internet is not a good idea IMHO.

Thank you.

How about aspect, elevation, slide surface, slide size, crown depth, etc? All of these things are standard reporting in avie bulletins, no advice dispensed. And, was he injured?

[Tiny]

Heh. I do still find this a bit ironic though, don't you?

Yeah, I thought so.

So what's with all the edits?
Afraid of getting called on your #%@?

[Yossarian]

Yeah, I thought so.

So what's with all the edits?
Afraid of getting called on your #%@?

Sigh. I'm correcting my bad spelling and grammar for clarity, actually.
Hemmingway, I am not.

[Tiny]

Thank you.

How about aspect, elevation, probable cause? All of these things are standard reporting in avie bulletins, no advice dispensed. Was he injured?

Aspect - already described;
Elevation - ditto.
Probable "cause" - human triggered.
Injured - Yes.

For some, giving a little infomation can actually be worse than no information at all. And using second hand information, as I provided here, to base any BC decision is a rook move at best.


edit - not from SW colorado; I wish

[Yossarian]

Aspect - already described;
Elevation - ditto.
Probable "cause" - human triggered.
Injured - Yes.

For some, a giving a little infomation can actually be worse than no information at all. And using second hand information, as I provided here, to base any BC decision is a rook move at best.

Then why bother saying anything at all in the first place Tiny? Why open with "Word has it that someone got taken for a ride" in response to Buster's thread if you're not going to say more than what can be gotten by reading Pinner's link to the Durango Herald.

You know what? I was right the first time. I think you suck after all.

Now I really am going to sleep, so I can get up early enough to form my own firsthand opinion about the snowpack on Berthoud Pass. Troll.

[Will]

Yeah, I thought so.

So what's with all the edits?
Afraid of getting called on your #%@?

You can say "shit" here.

"Fuck", too.

"Bitch", as well.

Go on, try it.

"MothershitassfuckDAMN!!"

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Also, not to intrude on a pissing match, but giving the status of the poor bastard caught in the avy is just common courtesy. If s/he's hurt or dead you should give your condolences. Even if you don't mean it. Once again, common courtesy.

[bagtagley]

instead, with you, its "Let ME tell YOU how and what to think."
Pompous jerk.

It smells like troll in here, but it's late and I'm feeling gullible.

I'll tell you what I think. I think anybody who makes light of something this serious has very little to offer this place. The only rook move I've seen is your blatant disregard for the person who was involved. You try to conclude with the ever so compelling argument against giving advice over the internet, yet you don't hesitate to belittle someones injuries with your first comment.

He didn't tell anybody what to think. Rather, I think he echoed the sentiments of most people on here. That is the fact that we take this sort of thing very seriously.

I think you should go beat your chest somewhere else. Your pissing on an otherwise inspiring and informative thread.