We ride out of Bear Lodge on a regular basis and just wondering if anyone has been involved or seen avalanches around that immediate area?? Just curious beacause as you ride up the closed highway there are avalanche signs all over.
Bighorn Avy danger???
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the next snow is whats really gong to slide. most slopes are close to rock hard and bare on top. most everything has blown down to the bottoms, it is deepin spots down there. the next snowfall will have a hard time sticking to the hardened snow
the next snow is whats really gong to slide. most slopes are close to rock hard and bare on top. most everything has blown down to the bottoms, it is deepin spots down there. the next snowfall will have a hard time sticking to the hardened snow
haha no
thats my track you see, it just does a u turn to where i took the pic
thats my track you see, it just does a u turn to where i took the pic
Been buried in one on the horns in a spot I had/have been riding for years and never seen slide. Never take it for granted that you have been there or it does not happen on the Horns. I hear that alot from guys who ride on the horns they say "there are no big hills, you can see everything, the horns are much safer than Cooke" all could not be further from the truth. Please take all nesscary precaution and training even if you think your ok there are spots that can get sketchy really quick
Sorry for the rant just that I used to be one of those guys mentioned above
Sorry for the rant just that I used to be one of those guys mentioned above
Thanks for the info......I hear ppl all the time say stuff like "it cant happen there" or "the bighorns arent big enough" and it drives me crazy.....Good to get some actual insight. Safe Ridin!!!!
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insomniac62
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Big Horns
Heading there in early feb for bach party...
anyways..Ridin' the mtns for about 4 years now, I attended my first avy class this year, what an eye opener...
It CAN happen anywhere, if you watch the signs, and check the report, its a great help...
However; was in Cooke over xgiving and saw a slide on a mtn face that I have never seen slide..
We all know the danger is out there..just giving a plug for avy classes everywhere, ATTEND ONE...
Heading there in early feb for bach party...
anyways..Ridin' the mtns for about 4 years now, I attended my first avy class this year, what an eye opener...
It CAN happen anywhere, if you watch the signs, and check the report, its a great help...
However; was in Cooke over xgiving and saw a slide on a mtn face that I have never seen slide..
We all know the danger is out there..just giving a plug for avy classes everywhere, ATTEND ONE...
Pretty sure i know who your talking about... Scary thing when it happens in a place that you ride and you know the people. Gotta be careful out there espeically when the hill is called 'avalanche'. Was up 14a a couple weeks ago and watched this little hill slide right next to the road while we were on the other side, was a small one, but it can happen unexpectadly (sp)
I wish someone would put out an avy report for this area!!! I think it would be useful to many people!
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mulestar
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I ride Cooke and the Bighorns the most, and I feel way more uneasy in the bighorns then Cooke, everything gets so windloaded there it seems. Everyone also has the mentality that it can't happen at the horns. I see way more things like JoshKoltes picture at the horns then at Cooke. I just stay off the nasty ones in Cooke, but it seems way more people play and climb in some sketchy stuff in the horns.
Always be thinking folks.
Always be thinking folks.
That slide we saw on the side of fiberglass last year was pretty big. Definitely wouldn't have wanted to be in that one.
Seen a few slides in the Big Horns over the years, and I agree that people become complacent there, myself included sometimes.
Saw a guy make a couple big sidehills across Fiberglass a few years ago and broke a big slide down as my boy and me were riding out from the bottom of it, he got lucky and rode it down, lucky was the key word. I had made a small run up on the north end and came down and told my boy we should get out of there, just as a group pulled in off the trail and this guy sliced across the face, we were riding out as he broke it and had to holler back to my boy to haul azz out of there, stopped away from the runout zone and watched it stop, guys buddy came riding up to me, I shook my head and said what the hell, he replied that the rider didn't want to waer his beacon that morning, I wished him good luck with that and we took a few pic's as he walked up the hill to help get the sled dislodged from the big chunks of snow.
Saw a guy make a couple big sidehills across Fiberglass a few years ago and broke a big slide down as my boy and me were riding out from the bottom of it, he got lucky and rode it down, lucky was the key word. I had made a small run up on the north end and came down and told my boy we should get out of there, just as a group pulled in off the trail and this guy sliced across the face, we were riding out as he broke it and had to holler back to my boy to haul azz out of there, stopped away from the runout zone and watched it stop, guys buddy came riding up to me, I shook my head and said what the hell, he replied that the rider didn't want to waer his beacon that morning, I wished him good luck with that and we took a few pic's as he walked up the hill to help get the sled dislodged from the big chunks of snow.
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oneal30
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Fiberglass Hill
Clear something up for me. Is Fiberglass hill right off 14A on the right hand side going away from Bear Lodge? Or is it the hill more towards the back side. I thought it was the hill that has no run off whatsoever. It's a really steep hill with trees at the bottom. That one seems way more vertical than the one right off 14.
Curious.
Clear something up for me. Is Fiberglass hill right off 14A on the right hand side going away from Bear Lodge? Or is it the hill more towards the back side. I thought it was the hill that has no run off whatsoever. It's a really steep hill with trees at the bottom. That one seems way more vertical than the one right off 14.
Curious.
I rode with a couple people this year that didn't think they needed beacons. A couple were uneducated and a couple didn't believe me that slides happen in the places we were riding. I have half a mind to take my helmet off and beat the next person within an inch of their life when they tell me avalanches don't happen in the horns. Found a new area last week and found a hill that had slid bad, 2nd biggest slide i have come across in my life.
Fiberglass is the one right off 14a that you described. No run out zone on it tho. Was up late November this year and another hill off of 14a slid and we watched it, was small but it can still happen. There is another hill over by hunt mountain that has already slid big time this year as well
