utah avy forecaster almost wacked

[rolowe]

When on top of Superior, and for a lot of the traverse over to Cristo, that headwall is staring you right in the face. How could you have possibly missed two people moving around on it???[/QUOTE]
your correct the headwall does stare you in the face. the worker was alone and under a cornice on the saddle.

[Trackhead]

There was a discussion? I didn't really see one at all in the first page of banter.



When on top of Superior, and for a lot of the traverse over to Cristo, that headwall is staring you right in the face. How could you have possibly missed two people moving around on it???

Gramps, you're making my point. Neither you or I were there. It's all banter unless you were there. There are two sides to every story. We only heard one on the avy forecast.

We'll discuss this further in the Tetons.

[gramps]

Gramps, you're making my point. Neither you or I were there. It's all banter unless you were there. There are two sides to every story. We only heard one on the avy forecast.

We'll discuss this further in the Tetons.

Well, TH actually we've heard both sides now: The one on the Avy report and the account this guy posted here. But you're right, armchair QBing is something that goes on too much here as it is. Glad it's been worked out between the people involved.

[ullr907]

damn sounds more like a circus than the backcountry!
maybe you all should bring your moms with you next time
what kind of dipshit avy forcaster is hanging around cornices without a partner spotting him with a radio???
last time i checked, you dont need a permit to drop a cornice in a national forest!
sounds like the avy boys think the world revolves around them
i heard the snowboarder busted a fat 3 off that shit and stuck the landing

[Trackhead]

Well, TH actually we've heard both sides now:

No, we haven't. We've heard the avy reports account (second hand), and a first hand account.

Lee's wrote that report, not the people involved in the incident. Facts get skewed by anger and embarrassment. I don't know if that happened in this scenario, but it sounds like it did.

From today's forecast.

First, we want to apologize for our ranting yesterday when a backcountry party triggered a cornice and very nearly killed two UDOT avalanche workers below on Monte Cristo in Little Cottonwood Canyon. As avalanche workers, we all have several close friends who have been killed in avalanches and we all live in constant fear of it ourselves. So when some of our closet friends and most respected avalanche workers have a close call, we tend to get tweaked. It sounds like it was unintentional and an honest mistake. But we still shouldn’t loose the lesson that we all need to be careful about traveling above other parties in avalanche terrain—something that is often overlooked in the urban backcountry of the Wasatch.

Remember earlier this year, when a very experienced backcountry traveler broke a cornice and took a ride?

[foothillfreak]

The way I see it, this type of backcountry overlap is going to become more and more of an issue in the wasatch, so I figured it a worthy discusson, if not, a worthy bantering session. I started going into the backcountry so I didn't have to worry about other people, but in the wasatch this is often no longer the case.

No one wants "buried + killed a group of skiers beneath me" on their resume, or their conscience.