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Have you ever hear the "whomp" sound out in the snow? With Youtube vid....

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I've NEVER heard one before I saw this video.

A buddy of mine in Sun Valley sent this to me today.

CRANK your speakers up right as Dueter, in the red plaid coat, skis down the slope. Listen for when he goes down through the little dip and gets airborne.

It happens RIGHT when he's in the air. Then you'll hear Toad yell "OHHHH".



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmBiq6rc9u0&feature=youtu.be

 
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It requires a sign-up. :( Not going to do that.

I have heard the snow whooph once, ironically out on a day of avy training. We were on the flats, about a half mile from the base of the nearest mountain. When we heard the whoomph, the avy instructor pointed it out and we discussed it. I've also seen video on YouTube where people remote trigger avy's - you can hear the whoomph, and then the mountain nearby goes. Pretty insane.
 
Weird.
I didn't have to sign-up for anything...I just cut and pasted the link and it opened for me.

Anyway, Toad said it was a really low frequency sound, but quite loud.
 
Yeah, you have to have a hotmail account to see skydrive things. I think you also have to be friends with the guy to see it, or have him added as a contact or something.

"This item might have been deleted, expired, or you might not have permission to access it. Contact the owner of this item for more information."
 
More times than I care to remember. Even had my beverage fall off my hood one time.
 
I've heard it before. A couple of years ago we were up at King's Hill at Shidoo basin. We walked about 50 ft over the edge to see if it was climbable and when just standing there it went wump. I looked up the hill and about ten feet above us the whole hilside cracked about 100 feet across and a half inch wide. I told my buddy to not even make a sound and crawl on all fours up above the crack. It never fell that day but heard it did go later on. Scary !!!

Ken...
 
I've felt it happen directly underneath me several times in the last 25 years. Almost every time I've felt it has been on a very low angle slope when I've parked my sled and stopped for a break, it makes the whoomp sound and everything drops an inch or two. It really freaks you out and definitely opens your eyes. It has always happened the day after a good dump.
 
One time for me. Climbed a hill on my M7 and stuck it. I walked to the front of the sled and that is when I heard it. Everything dropped a few inches. I stood there for a half hour not moving. Best thing was my buddies never climbed up to see what I was doing. (that is the deal) Rather then pulling the front of the sled down I dug it out slowly. We left and the hill slid later that day. I don't know if sitting there for a half hour helped but it made me feel like it did. Sitting there for a half hour sold me on getting AVY GEAR, bag and all. It may cost a lot of money but when you have a chance to sit there you will write a check for any amount just to go home to the family safe and sound.

BE SAFE OUT THERE!!
 
We were parked in a medium size draw covered in aspens. Group of 5 about half way up the slope on a level outcropping. The whole area whooomped...about 2 acres...shook all the trees and made the snow shake off of the them. Power of nature is awesome!
 
mikew5945 said:
One time for me. Climbed a hill on my M7 and stuck it. I walked to the front of the sled and that is when I heard it. Everything dropped a few inches. I stood there for a half hour not moving. Best thing was my buddies never climbed up to see what I was doing. (that is the deal) Rather then pulling the front of the sled down I dug it out slowly. We left and the hill slid later that day. I don't know if sitting there for a half hour helped but it made me feel like it did. Sitting there for a half hour sold me on getting AVY GEAR, bag and all. It may cost a lot of money but when you have a chance to sit there you will write a check for any amount just to go home to the family safe and sound.

BE SAFE OUT THERE!!
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This is sooo true! I fell about 15 feet short of a good deep pull, stuck it there on purpose. I never heard the "whomp" (imagine it happened during my climb) but when I reached the front of my skis to put my brakes on and pull them around I could see the "crack in the snow" and wow was it spooky! I was relieved to get back on flat ground.
 
I had him edit and email the vid to me. I put it on Youtube....

Now you can all see it.

Turn your speakers up LOUD.
 
tudizzle said:
We were parked in a medium size draw covered in aspens. Group of 5 about half way up the slope on a level outcropping. The whole area whooomped...about 2 acres...shook all the trees and made the snow shake off of the them. Power of nature is awesome!
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I've heard and felt it alot of them over the years, but this one was by far, the biggest one I've ever felt.
 
One of my first days riding a sled in CO I had a whoomph experience. Last season I don't think I had a single one. This season its almost weird to have a day where there isn't a collapse.

In December I was skinning up a ridge line, about 12'k, east aspect. Hit the ridge then switchback out toward the bowl, get out about 40 feet and switchback toward the ridge. Just before I switchbacked toward the ridge (my riding buddy was waiting on the ridge which was nearly bare ground, one at risk at a time!) there was a whooph. We looked at eachother, looked at the sky, and said "holy **** that was a whooph. I would swear it was thunder!" I've never heard one that loud before or since. But we got the fock out of there. We had dug a pit at about 11500, same aspect, but a little less steep, pit looked OK. Changed elevation just a bit and went a little steeper, much sketchier.

I have remote triggered two slides this season, one involved a whoomph, not sure if the other did as I was on my sled and couldn't hear it if it did make a sound. I've seen plenty of shooting cracks that are silent, no collapse, just shifting of a slab. Whoomphs mean you need to change aspects. I've also had them happen up to a week after the last snowfall...
 
yeap

heard it on my very first trip out west. Guide said we were on a fairly safe slope when i questioned him about it though. We had just gottin dang near the whole group stuck. as the one we just dug out cut a line below us, two of us were standing by our sleds and felt the whole snow pack settle about four inches. Not much as of whomp sound but same concept I assume... Sketchy stuff.
 
I had this happen to me twice out in Togwotee this year. Heard the "whomp" and the snow shifted so much my sled dropped about 4 inches both times. We got the heck out of there quick.
 
AdrenalineAddict said:
I've felt it happen directly underneath me several times in the last 25 years. Almost every time I've felt it has been on a very low angle slope when I've parked my sled and stopped for a break, it makes the whoomp sound and everything drops an inch or two. It really freaks you out and definitely opens your eyes. It has always happened the day after a good dump.
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yup. In the ravines over on pyramid pass. It just drops and everyone looks around. Did you yes lets go.:face-icon-small-hap
 
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