well
Pretty quiet in here.
So,, I'm headed to the North Slope on Tuesday, should be interesting...
Who all snowchecked the 2011 Poo, Kurt has some interesting offers.
Anyone know how Westmont and the boys are doin??????
Pretty quiet in here.
So,, I'm headed to the North Slope on Tuesday, should be interesting...
Who all snowchecked the 2011 Poo, Kurt has some interesting offers.
Anyone know how Westmont and the boys are doin??????
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rcditchpickle
Active member
Friday March 19th
Snow is set up hard. Unloaded at the spring drop off coroner and road no dirt.
Beautiful sunny day with no break downs or first aid. HaHA . The road in is very bumpy with very little snow, mostly ice You have to want it if your going for one last ride. All in all it was a great day not to work and skip out for one last ride I will get more pics for ya when I can figure this picture thing out.
Snow is set up hard. Unloaded at the spring drop off coroner and road no dirt.
Beautiful sunny day with no break downs or first aid. HaHA . The road in is very bumpy with very little snow, mostly ice You have to want it if your going for one last ride. All in all it was a great day not to work and skip out for one last ride I will get more pics for ya when I can figure this picture thing out.
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rcditchpickle
Active member
Some mo pics for ya.
Back from Trout Lake and Revy.
We had quite a week. Another guy and myself had a near miss when the whole hill slid on us in Trout Lake a couple hours into riding on Wednesday.
We packed up and went to Revy and rode Frisby on Thursday. Had a great time but three of nine guys got hurt before the end of the day.
One with an ankle swollen(he thinks cracked or broken but not sure), one with a compressed back after hitting a depression in flat light, and the third with what looks to be broken ribs and elbow after casing a jump.
On Friday all but one of us rode(a couple in quite a bit of pain) but had a great time riding Boulder until close to the end of the day when I lost the pto side with a broken ring and I limped out to the truck.
After getting up Saturday we were down the three hurt guys and I was going to rent a sled (we were going to ride Caribou) but it was decided everyone had had enough fun so we loaded up and came home early.
I'll see about posting pictures later.
Glad to be home.
We had quite a week. Another guy and myself had a near miss when the whole hill slid on us in Trout Lake a couple hours into riding on Wednesday.
We packed up and went to Revy and rode Frisby on Thursday. Had a great time but three of nine guys got hurt before the end of the day.
One with an ankle swollen(he thinks cracked or broken but not sure), one with a compressed back after hitting a depression in flat light, and the third with what looks to be broken ribs and elbow after casing a jump.
On Friday all but one of us rode(a couple in quite a bit of pain) but had a great time riding Boulder until close to the end of the day when I lost the pto side with a broken ring and I limped out to the truck.
After getting up Saturday we were down the three hurt guys and I was going to rent a sled (we were going to ride Caribou) but it was decided everyone had had enough fun so we loaded up and came home early.
I'll see about posting pictures later.
Glad to be home.
well the sled is up for sale 
time for my first real project sled/mod! hopfully i can get rid of it for a resonable price. surveyor looks very tempting! i think there was more snow last may when we were up there last lol. i wanna go back. hopfully this year before all the snow melts! i wanna get out for one last ride!
time for my first real project sled/mod! hopfully i can get rid of it for a resonable price. surveyor looks very tempting! i think there was more snow last may when we were up there last lol. i wanna go back. hopfully this year before all the snow melts! i wanna get out for one last ride!
he left snowest for good. now he's just a rebel and facebook whore.
He's getting married this summer and is way happier then he has been in the past....almost to the point ya wish he was an ace again!
course he doesn't have a sled cause his vag swelled up!
um yeah
It ended up, I'm not goin.
so,,,,,,,,,
It looks like NO sleds for this year either.
It ended up, I'm not goin.
so,,,,,,,,,
It looks like NO sleds for this year either.
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don't everybody post at once.........
HEY, I heard some bad news about an avy in MT, does anyone know anything?????????????
don't everybody post at once.........
HEY, I heard some bad news about an avy in MT, does anyone know anything?????????????
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avyfire
Member
Missoula Lake Avalanche Accident
This was just posted on http://www.missoulaavalanche.org
Avalanche Accident (preliminary information posted 1400 on 3/29)
On Saturday March 27, a 29 year snowmobiler from St Maries, Idaho died in an avalanche accident near Missoula Lake on the Superior Ranger District of the Lolo National Forest. This area is on the MT/ID border 10 air miles SW from Superior, MT. The individual was highmarking a steep chute and was making the last run of the day when the slab released. He was caught and carried for an estimated 800 feet, was strained through trees and completely buried (about 4 feet deep) in a terrain trap. His partners were in a safe location, witnessed the avalanche and quickly located their friend with transcievers and dug him up. He died from his injuries shortly after he was dug up.
Investigators from the West Central Montana Avalanche Center went to the site Sunday to document the accident.
Initial indications are that this was a wet slab avalanche that released on a bed surface of surface hoar and small grained facets that formed several weeks ago. The avalanche was on a 6200' NW aspect and was triggered at about 6PM so the slope would have had direct sun on it for a few hours. Temperatures at the nearby Hoodoo Basin SNOTEL (at 6050') reached 41 degrees Saturday. The crown was estimated to be about 2 - 2.5 feet deep and 300-400 feet across.
A more detailed report will be posted on missoulaavalanche.org and Westwide (avalanche.org) after the investigation team interviews witnesses and completes their investigation.
Our thoughts are with his family and friends during this difficult time.
This was just posted on http://www.missoulaavalanche.org
Avalanche Accident (preliminary information posted 1400 on 3/29)
On Saturday March 27, a 29 year snowmobiler from St Maries, Idaho died in an avalanche accident near Missoula Lake on the Superior Ranger District of the Lolo National Forest. This area is on the MT/ID border 10 air miles SW from Superior, MT. The individual was highmarking a steep chute and was making the last run of the day when the slab released. He was caught and carried for an estimated 800 feet, was strained through trees and completely buried (about 4 feet deep) in a terrain trap. His partners were in a safe location, witnessed the avalanche and quickly located their friend with transcievers and dug him up. He died from his injuries shortly after he was dug up.
Investigators from the West Central Montana Avalanche Center went to the site Sunday to document the accident.
Initial indications are that this was a wet slab avalanche that released on a bed surface of surface hoar and small grained facets that formed several weeks ago. The avalanche was on a 6200' NW aspect and was triggered at about 6PM so the slope would have had direct sun on it for a few hours. Temperatures at the nearby Hoodoo Basin SNOTEL (at 6050') reached 41 degrees Saturday. The crown was estimated to be about 2 - 2.5 feet deep and 300-400 feet across.
A more detailed report will be posted on missoulaavalanche.org and Westwide (avalanche.org) after the investigation team interviews witnesses and completes their investigation.
Our thoughts are with his family and friends during this difficult time.
Steve,
I JUST looked at the HooDoo SnoTel and saw it went up 11" in the last 18 hours and I was coming here to post that info...
Steve can you post the coordinates for the Avy? I'd like to look it up on Google Earth. Thanks, Scott
Is that this avalanche or a different one? http://www.missoulaavalanche.org/gallery.php?albumid=5443557818905714945
I JUST looked at the HooDoo SnoTel and saw it went up 11" in the last 18 hours and I was coming here to post that info...
Steve can you post the coordinates for the Avy? I'd like to look it up on Google Earth. Thanks, Scott
Is that this avalanche or a different one? http://www.missoulaavalanche.org/gallery.php?albumid=5443557818905714945
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avyfire
Member
Scott,
The coordinates are 47 03' 25.47"N , 115 06' 45.56"W. Keep in mind this is based from my conversation this am from the folks on site but I will confirm this asap. I hope to have more detailed info in a day or two and will certainly post it here. Once I have some photos I'll get them on the avalanche center gallery. The pics on there are from much earlier (and further south) but the same weak layer.
Hoodoo has been in the Bulls eye for moisture. 11 inches of snow and nearly 2 inches of snow water equivalent in the past few hours so a very heavy load just got dropped on a snowpack that has at least one it not more weak layers.
Sadly, the avalanche at Missoula Lake clearly demonstrates the weakness of the old buried surface hoar layer we've been talking about. You just can't trust buried facets.
The coordinates are 47 03' 25.47"N , 115 06' 45.56"W. Keep in mind this is based from my conversation this am from the folks on site but I will confirm this asap. I hope to have more detailed info in a day or two and will certainly post it here. Once I have some photos I'll get them on the avalanche center gallery. The pics on there are from much earlier (and further south) but the same weak layer.
Hoodoo has been in the Bulls eye for moisture. 11 inches of snow and nearly 2 inches of snow water equivalent in the past few hours so a very heavy load just got dropped on a snowpack that has at least one it not more weak layers.
Sadly, the avalanche at Missoula Lake clearly demonstrates the weakness of the old buried surface hoar layer we've been talking about. You just can't trust buried facets.
Steve, thank you very much.
One conversation I've heard come up before among people discussion weak layers is that once a layer of surface hoar is buried by a month or two of snow how likely is it that layer never "converts" to a safe layer?
I guess what I'm asking is once a layer of surface hoar is buried and it's established as a weak layer how easy/difficult is it for it to become not so dangerous? Not that common?
I've seen pictures, reports and stories of layers that fell in December giving away in April and May. Those layers just never "healed" and became stable.
Is it safe to predict most of the time that once a layer is really dangerous, it never really becomes safe.
I know from experience (with Ben Adkison at Lolo this past Feb with the Florence 6th graders) that an old layer that was holding on Thursday about 25cm down under the surface did not hold on Friday under the same weather conditions.
One conversation I've heard come up before among people discussion weak layers is that once a layer of surface hoar is buried by a month or two of snow how likely is it that layer never "converts" to a safe layer?
I guess what I'm asking is once a layer of surface hoar is buried and it's established as a weak layer how easy/difficult is it for it to become not so dangerous? Not that common?
I've seen pictures, reports and stories of layers that fell in December giving away in April and May. Those layers just never "healed" and became stable.
Is it safe to predict most of the time that once a layer is really dangerous, it never really becomes safe.
I know from experience (with Ben Adkison at Lolo this past Feb with the Florence 6th graders) that an old layer that was holding on Thursday about 25cm down under the surface did not hold on Friday under the same weather conditions.
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