Utah Avalanche photo-of-the-day

[Chris Walken]

gentlemen. please. you are justifying wra's b/c skills. to a demented sociopathic internet psycho. drawing attention. to himself. by playing the sage know-it-all. no one else. has a problem. with the info posted here.

[PNWbrit]

Blurred, you want to promote Avie safety in this forum which is admirable. I supported your request to ONS yesterday that we have an avie forum, at very least we need to promote the use of the weather forum.

Please don't now pick pointless arguments with someone who is qualified, experienced and most importantly willing to help promote avie safety. If you disagree with Wra then lets have a civil discourse about it so we can all learn something....possibly even from you.

You shout so hard about things so often that your views seem to be automatically dissmissed around here. That's a pity since at times you obviously do have things to contribute.

No doubt you'll flame back at me regarding this post......

[phUnk]

Here is the link to add BlurredElevens to your ignore list.

(There's a link to ignore every user in their profile.)

[13]

Bump for good info despite Brett's beef w/ wra's alleged "bragging."

[edg]

Here is the link to add BlurredElevens to your ignore list.

(There's a link to ignore every user in their profile.)

Ignoring EVERY user would get a bit boring...

edg

[Agent 00X]

thanks for the direction over to UAC pages, wra

[skinnyskier]

If you look at the actuarial table in Bruce Tremper's book, you'll quickly learn that WRA/WOW is making correct avalanche decisions 99.99% of the time since he is still alive after at least 2000 bc ski days. That assumes that he travels in the bc 100 days a year, crosses 10 avy slopes per day and only 1/20 slopes will avalanche. So, what ever he said has only a 1/10,000 chance of being wrong. Anybody else on the board with 2000 bc ski days?

[Ski Beaver]

Looks to me like Blurred and Wra are related.

Wra


Blurred

[Blurred]

I had this same discussion with APD a few weeks ago. Be careful out there.

[hop]

It may look like they are related but if my memory serves me correctly, that's not WRA.

[Blurred]

It may look like they are related but if my memory serves me correctly, that's not WRA.

Correct, that is Maynard G. Krebs.

[Ski Beaver]

you and Maynard look alike.

[Bunion 2020]

Gee Brett, making friends and informed commentary over here now eh?

I would get to know who you are slagging on before you cast those stones my man. Wow knows...... Do you?

[Shredgar]

Let's take all the republicans skiing with WRA.......

I've heard wra likes to make republicans cry.

[bad_roo]

Gee Brett, making friends and informed commentary over here now eh?

I would get to know who you are slagging on before you cast those stones my man. Wow knows...... Do you?

Bunion. I have to take my hat off to your styleeness by starting your very first post on TGR with the word 'Gee'.

YOU ROCK!

[Bunion 2020]

Gee Bad Roo, coming from you, a noted AUS maggot of such renown, that really makes me feel like a million dollars US (.675 million US dollars give or take a few given the current weakness of the US dollar and the exchange rate against euros).

Marsupials rule!!!! Love ya babe.....

[Tippster]

Gee Bad Roo, coming from you, a noted AUS maggot of such renown, that really makes me feel like a million dollars US (.675 million US dollars give or take a few given the current weakness of the US dollar and the exchange rate against euros).

Marsupials rule!!!! Love ya babe.....

Roo no es Aussie, young JONGdewan...

[summit]

Maynard didn't get to french kiss Jamie Pierre

[edg]

Gee Bad Roo, coming from you, a noted AUS maggot of such renown, that really makes me feel like a million dollars US (.675 million US dollars give or take a few given the current weakness of the US dollar and the exchange rate against euros).

Marsupials rule!!!! Love ya babe.....

Wowh, They have the euro in Australia? Well that's fucking weird!

edg

[splat]

Wowh, They have the euro in Australia? Well that's fucking weird!

edg

Damn British imperialists....first Chamonix, then Iraq, now Australia.

[subtle plague]

Wowh, They have the euro in Australia? Well that's fucking weird!

edg

they don't even have it on that magical island where the mighty roo is hiding

[Bunion 2020]

Gee gentleman, you are over thinking, never said the had euros in OZ, that is either tall skinny frenchman with imperious attitudes.... dudes, or the European currency. I just wrote that given the current exchange rate I feel like either a million devalued bucks or well you get the picture. Get the picture?

You are all so exacting when dissecting the posting a JONG writes....

Carry on.

[AltaPowderDaze]

The Battleship (also known as Arnold) is a large path along US 550 in southwestern Colorado. It is located in the San Juan Mountains about 3.55 miles north of Silverton. The top of the starting zone is at 12,400 feet, and avalanches can fall 2720 feet to Mineral Creek, but very large slab avalanches such as this one can climb the 250 feet from the creek to the highway. This avalanche buried US 550 3 feet X 800 feet.

[wra]

Since Little Cottonwood was closed I went to Brighton and proceeded to Little Cottonwood. Discovered a large avalanche with a crown of up to nine feet in the main Dog Lake Chute above Dog Lake to the west of the Brighton ski area. Slide ran during the night and was about 100 feet wide. Slope is northeast facing at about 9500 feet. Mature timber was removed in the path.



Proceeded to Catherines continung up the ridge to Wolverine and descended back to Brighton cutting out a small slide on the little steep hill above Lake Martha.
No slides were visible in the Sunset, Rocky Point area nor on Wolverine or Tuscarora.

[AltaPowderDaze]

i can't imagine the consequences of being in a slide that large. is it safe to assume that it broke on facets and is in a heavily wind affected area? i'm not too familiar with dog lake. i only remember a powder hill just above that strains into some trees just before the lake. what was the angle of the bedsurface? it looks pretty tame at the crown (low 30's).

i'm glad to see that you are still posting over here. please stick around. we need the knowledge. also stop by the new forum (slide zone) and lend us some knowledge.

thanks for sticking around. see you in a few days.


edit: also what were the dimensions of the slide and how deep was the debris pile?