Avalanche Safety Device tested PART TWO

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[LeeLau]

There's gotta be a movie of this somewhere

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It's a great video, just have to figure out how to post it.........

[Squatch]

dude, the frame-by-frame thing takes useful information and presents in an unhelpful manner. so many pics is borderline thread cunting

[bad_roo]

77 consecutive posts by the same person has to be some sort of TGR record. I'm amazed Unibonger didn't pop up in the middle with a picture of a fat chick or a turd.

[Squatch]

look at "part one"...i he tops that

[KANUTTEN]

And from this we can learn:

1. Don't get caught by a grade 4 avy.
2. If your name is adam you should stay away from bombs as if they were.. the plaugue
3. You can consider yourself lucky if you get paid for flying chopters, bombing things and watch crazy avys live.

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So true Kanutten, here's a shot of the arrogant bastard napping on the bombs, just asking for trouble grande......

More bad news for you Squatch, we've got one more control avy to post with 87 sequential pics to it. Fight the urge to look at it buddy.....although, right as the avalanche is about to hit the valley (and a small alpine lake) it runs into a major rock outcropping which tears the avalanche into 2 seperate slides. Looks pretty cool.........

[KANUTTEN]

So true Kanutten, here's a shot of the arrogant bastard napping on the bombs, just asking for trouble grande......

More bad news for you Squatch, we've got one more control avy to post with 87 sequential pics to it. Fight the urge to look at it buddy.....although, right as the avalanche is about to hit the valley (and a small alpine lake) it runs into a major rock outcropping which tears the avalanche into 2 seperate slides. Looks pretty cool.........

You teaser!!!!!













(caught giggling at my workdesk )

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Well here it is for all of you frame by frame avalanche jumkies, the last pic sequence of our week up in Revelstoke this past winter. There were quite a few more control avalanches produced, but this was the last one we photographed. All told, all week there were about 20 avalanches produced for the testing of our flotation device.

This last control avalanche starts out with a cornice drop on top of the mountain. The avalanche gains momentum on the upper slope of the hill, then halfway down the mountain the slide is channeled through a tight coulior with a huge rock outcropping at the bottom. When the slide hits the outcropping it is torn into two separate leading edges. The snow was moving at 110 miles an hour when it hit the rock, and the plume of snow erupting inside the slide threw snow straight up in the air at least 150 feet. Pretty cool to watch. The avalanche really thundered when it came out of the throat of the coulior, and as it raced into the valley it ran out and onto an alpine lake. You can see the ice crack running the length of the lake.

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Here the slide is about to channel itself down into the narrow coulior......

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Here the avalanche smashes into the outcropping at the bottom.........

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Here you can see the inner plume of snow exploding upwards into the air....

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And here the avalnche cleaves into two halves........

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Here the avalanche approaches the alpine lake. You can see the fracture in the lake ice.......

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