Baker question

[2Thetopp]

That was the north side wasn't it? If not, where were you?

I know big house has slid bad, I assume pocket lake and the area around there has slid as well. Probably the big climb from the horse corral too.

There are also a ton of terrain traps that can make small slides very dangerous as well.

Anyone have any history about big slides that have occured in the past? I note that this is a touch subject, ie past performance does not determine future results. Meaning that just because something hasn't slid in the past, doesn't mean it won't slide in the future.

Ya, northside, "but still Baker, and still an avy" my point is to be careful wherever you go in high avy forecast. Ruffy,I can see your point about lots of places to play at Baker, so after much thought you have opened my eyes, before I was blind but now I see, Baker is a great place to ride in high avy conditions. Thanks for the info. Peace.

 

[ruffryder]

Baker is a great place to ride in high avy conditions. Thanks for the info. Peace.

I don't know if I would say great.. Just that there are areas where you can minimize risk, many more so than like maybe Bear Paw.

 

[V-Man]

When you get to the point of dropping down to the horse barn or going left up near the rock out cropping, that is an area where slides happen I have seen snow bolders the size of a truck in that area.. I rode out a small avy just to the left of hood hill once in the spring. The snow depth of the avy was only two inches and I was able to steer out of it ..

I certainly believe that, big scree field in pic below.

Where is hood hill?

 

[ruffryder]

Hood is the next knob in the center by the waterfall up the mountain from peanut

 

[Carbon77]

There are safe ways to travel through any type of avalanche conditions. If you want to go up there while its high then stay out of pitches more than 20 degrees, terrain traps (most of upper mountain) and wind loaded areas.

Stick to ridges, places with safe zones and anchors. If you are not sure, dig a snow pit, if you don't know how to dig a snow pit, read snow sense and take a level 2 avalanche course.

 

[snowmoherb]

The east side of the area can be accessed from here:

A word of caution on that route though, the southern end of that draw is not yet safe to ride. There are holes that go pretty deep down to the creek underneath.

you can access the eastern area from that way, but you need to take the ridge on the west side of the draw up about 1/2 way before you drop down into the draw.

Otherwise, you might end up in a situation like this, hanging onto the handlebars for your life, with your feet dangling above 15'-20' of empty air like I did:

Thanks to Deadsled1 and Icepole123 and his son Nick for helping me get my sled out, I owe you guys one!

 

[V-Man]

Holy smokes. Shame you didn't have a gopro on your head. That must have been pretty unnerving, especially with the flat light.

Glad you and your sled made it back in one piece.

 

[snowmoherb]

I did have a camera, but wasn't recording at the time because I was going slow, light was bad, etc...

 

[Flakey]

I hate flat light, no trees for definition, and holes. And thats a DEEP hole !! Jeeez