Desole le desir de partager est trop grand:
Je n'ai JAMAIS JAMAIS vu ca!! snowbird annonce 2m35 a mi station!!!!! C'est simplement ridicule! vivement cette aprem a Brigthon
Avalanche INFORMATION
Sunday, October 31, 2004 7:30 pm Happy halloween
Current Conditions:
This storm is pounding the mountains with a vengeance. As of 5pm the upper Cottonwoods have picked up 25-30” of 7% smoke (63 a 76cm). ... In the Cottonwoods, it’s still dumping with another wave expected to add perhaps another 4-8” before it’s done. Unbelievable. The northwest winds have been less than 15mph and the temps were in the teens and twenties. With the turning and riding conditions are epic, and I suspect that folks will be talking about this October for years.
Avalanche Conditions
With this much snow and some hourly snowfall rates exceeding 2”/hr, avalanches are the rule and not the exception. The snow was exceedingly sensitive and both natural and human triggered avalanches ran on a variety of aspects above 9000’. Most ran on Friday’s rime crust or within the new snow, averaging 12-18” deep but reportedly not propagating very far. Typically, slope angles needed to approach 38-40 degrees to get things to run, and once they did, they would run fast and far, entraining a lot of snow along the way. At least two skiers were caught and carried in separate incidents in upper Little Cottonwood with only bruised egos to show for it. Slope cuts, cornice drops, and jumping on test slopes will tell you all you need to know for this type of hazard. That’s the good news. The bad news is that there was one report of an avalanche that pulled down into old snow. A cornice drop on a steep northeast facing slope in upper Little Cottonwood pulled out one of the ‘rogue’ wind slabs from last Thursday, producing a slide nearly 2’ deep and 50’ wide. Clearly, another inch of water weight combined with the thump of a cornice drop was enough stress to initiate failure in a layer that hadn’t produced any slides for a few days.
Je n'ai JAMAIS JAMAIS vu ca!! snowbird annonce 2m35 a mi station!!!!! C'est simplement ridicule! vivement cette aprem a Brigthon
Avalanche INFORMATION
Sunday, October 31, 2004 7:30 pm Happy halloween
Current Conditions:
This storm is pounding the mountains with a vengeance. As of 5pm the upper Cottonwoods have picked up 25-30” of 7% smoke (63 a 76cm). ... In the Cottonwoods, it’s still dumping with another wave expected to add perhaps another 4-8” before it’s done. Unbelievable. The northwest winds have been less than 15mph and the temps were in the teens and twenties. With the turning and riding conditions are epic, and I suspect that folks will be talking about this October for years.
Avalanche Conditions
With this much snow and some hourly snowfall rates exceeding 2”/hr, avalanches are the rule and not the exception. The snow was exceedingly sensitive and both natural and human triggered avalanches ran on a variety of aspects above 9000’. Most ran on Friday’s rime crust or within the new snow, averaging 12-18” deep but reportedly not propagating very far. Typically, slope angles needed to approach 38-40 degrees to get things to run, and once they did, they would run fast and far, entraining a lot of snow along the way. At least two skiers were caught and carried in separate incidents in upper Little Cottonwood with only bruised egos to show for it. Slope cuts, cornice drops, and jumping on test slopes will tell you all you need to know for this type of hazard. That’s the good news. The bad news is that there was one report of an avalanche that pulled down into old snow. A cornice drop on a steep northeast facing slope in upper Little Cottonwood pulled out one of the ‘rogue’ wind slabs from last Thursday, producing a slide nearly 2’ deep and 50’ wide. Clearly, another inch of water weight combined with the thump of a cornice drop was enough stress to initiate failure in a layer that hadn’t produced any slides for a few days.
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Le probleme c'est que comme toute la neige est tombee si vite, ca semble parfait partout mais il y a encore de grosses zones piegeuses! 
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