Need Your Avy Pics

[deschutes]

We need avy pics for a sledder focused avy education program. If you have pics of slides, sleds with slides, etc. they will be very useful in helping others to realize the dangers and stay safe. Please post your pics in this thread, even if you have posted them elsewhere. It would be great to get them all in the same place. If you have a little info on the slides that would awesome as well.

Thanks!

 

[eludnu]

Sand Mountain slide, Hoodoo, Oregon

Came across this on a late, last ride of the year, last year. Much wider, and longer than pictured. I have quite a few more photo's, but these will give you the idea....

 

[backcountryislife]

12/11/10


My sled

Where it came down.

Me... alive. And scared SH**less realizing how close I had come to going off the cliff.

Scary day, happy to be here.

 

[eludnu]

You're sled took a beating! The pictures of your busted up sled speak volumes to the power of an avy, and why many fatalities are due to blunt force trauma. Since you clearly deployed your bag, did you ride it down a bit, or get lucky and bail high?

 

[2Thetopp]

Here's a slide that I set off in '04 staying on a sidehill a little to long, fortunately was able to ride it out, jumped the wave, then stay ahead of it, lucky, we had no avy gear at the time.

We thought we'd go to some "safer" lower angle bowls, after climbing a hill and busting thru the cornice, I turn to see the cornice directly above where I had just come up from let loose, you can see it sliding down the hill behind me.

Time to go, went shopping for beacons, probes, and shovels on the way home. On the way back down the trail we could see where the first slide took place, hard to tell from the picture, but it was 400 yards accross and about an 1/8 mile long.

Here's on from the previous week that we ran accross

 

[AKdragon700]

Dropped the cornice and broke this slide loose

 

[backcountryislife]

You're sled took a beating! The pictures of your busted up sled speak volumes to the power of an avy, and why many fatalities are due to blunt force trauma. Since you clearly deployed your bag, did you ride it down a bit, or get lucky and bail high?

Pulled right away, popped from the bottom (dragged along the rocks) to the top right away & swam out. I got to the edge & grabbed a bush. 10 feet later the angle changed from 12ish to 35ish for about 80 feet, then drop off.

 

[northof40]

Just a small one but the first one that I have ever seen slide in person.

 

[Mcx Nytro]

This was one that killed two people at a very popular area turbo hill in Revy

 

[aebsledder]

Here is a few

Here is one I was involved in:

Digging our sleds out:

The crown face (7ft) and the debris pile

This is a picture of one I was not involved in, but know some people who were.
Sadly, this slide claimed the life of a local man:

 

[revelized]

aeb, what were the general areas of the two slides you posted? first one taylors? second West fork?

 

[MtnDoo]

Leadville, CO