Avalanche at Mt Hood Meadows

Started by k2skier, Jan 18 2010 07:45 PM

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#1 k2skier

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Posted 18 January 2010 - 07:45 PM

Two slides broke loose Sunday night, 1-17-2010, between 7:00 and 8:00PM. One on Wy'East and the other started on Clark Canyon headwall. The Clark Canyon slide slid all the down the Heather Canyon run out and stopped about 100 yards short of the uphill to get to the Heather lift. Patrol's control efforts added more on Monday morning. Heather opened later then normal and a Patroller told me that the main reason was so the public could get a look at the slide. The length of it was almost incomprehensible, must have been about 2.5 miles! Here they are on my Webshots page.

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#2 Kelly

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Posted 20 January 2010 - 03:01 PM

Nice pic set k2
I happened to be driving in the State that night - huge wind and precip event for the State. This bigger stuff starts in what’s called the Super Bowl marked with a red circle, happens about everyother year. Video link shows debris trail like k2 pics…certainly not something you would swim out of. Poachers beware!

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#3 k2skier

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Posted 20 January 2010 - 03:33 PM

Thanks for the kind words. That does resemble the recent slide. I'm so frustrated about the pictures, first off it was clear in the morning and I kept telling my son; it sure looks like it slid up there! But I didn't take any shots. Then we went into Heather to see it up close as soon as the rope dropped and my camera battery was dead!!! Every 2-3 pictures I had to warm it up or I would have taken 50-60 pics and some video. It's more of a gimmicky camera with a really weak lens, an Olympus Stylus 1050sw. It's great that's it's freeze, water and impact resistant, but the fixed lens takes mediocre shots.

I archived a photo drew lines where the crowns were. I took this shot because just below the line on the right, Super Bowl, is a slide crown, almost the exact same spot.