THIS IS WHAT LOOKING UP IN A CREVASSE LOOKS LIKE

[SNOBI-WAN-KENOBI]

This was at Baker 12 years ago...a friend of mine...LUCKY friend!

this pic was taken about 10 to 15' below the surface, looking straight up. thats the sky up above where they broke thru about 1' of snow over the crevass , the sled was to wide and got wedged in , This person fell below it , the walls kind of "hour glassed " in luckily, this person got stuck in the hour glass facing down, totaly dark below me for a long ways, back than this person didnt used to buckle his helmet, it came off and sounded like a bowling ball way down below. The crevass walls were so frozen my knife would not even scratch the ice. I was hanging in there for about an hour till someone went for help to get some ropes to pull this person out. we went up 2 days later with a helicopter to get the sled out.

 

[snowmoherb]

Holy crap! That would really suck...

 

[Flakey]

Thats just plain scary. Hearing your helmet falling.....falling....falling.... omg.

 

[sunbather1969]

my machine got swallowed in one on helens last year

I was going up a ridge at the base then real quick like my machine was bouncing off limiter and ( one of those dreams when you just fall back in a fall my back goes down) luckily my quick ninja instincts told me to roll off to the side and my skies caught the machine as it went down. I want to thank the crew of people again that helped me get her out again. Can't see but that thing is about thirty feet deep my machine fell in and we had to throw a bunch of snow under it then go in and tie five ropes to it took 12 people to get her out.

 

[SNOBI-WAN-KENOBI]

I was going up a ridge at the base then real quick like my machine was bouncing off limiter and ( one of those dreams when you just fall back in a fall my back goes down) luckily my quick ninja instincts told me to roll off to the side and my skies caught the machine as it went down. I want to thank the crew of people again that helped me get her out again. Can't see but that thing is about thirty feet deep my machine fell in and we had to throw a bunch of snow under it then go in and tie five ropes to it took 12 people to get her out.

BUY A LOTTO TICKET!!!!

 

[SLED2SHRED]

 

[H20SKE]

This is why I stay off the glacier pretty much--except right above Big House---otherwise there is way to many other areas to ride up there to risk it.

 

[Scott]

"This person" is one lucky SOB!!!!

 

[snowmoherb]

This is why I stay off the glacier pretty much--except right above Big House---otherwise there is way to many other areas to ride up there to risk it.

Which part is considered "Big House"? I know where Railroad is and Hood hill, but other than that, I don't know the names of stuff up there. Only been up there 6-10 times...

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[Flakey]

Which part is considered "Big House"? I know where Railroad is and Hood hill, but other than that, I don't know the names of stuff up there. Only been up there 6-10 times...

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If you go to hood hill the trail splits. One heads to the left, one to the right(in a general sense) if you go right and keep heading up following the main trail people tend to follow, you get to a big bowl, and then a big arse hill. Thats "Big House"

I learned this back in 07-08ish(i think) from H2OSKE. At one of the Baker shootouts, probably my first one actually. A big group was headed up to big house, it was snowing pretty hard, but I wanted to know where it was so....
Couldnt see crap. I was still very new to Baker. On my 04 REV 800. Just kept following and climbing. No idea where I was headed. When we stopped I looked at H2OSKE(he probly doesnt remember) and said, "Where's Big House?" He said "You just climbed it." I was like, oh. COOL!

Then they all kept heading up. I on the other hand found out that coming down big house by yerself, when you cant see, and dont know what it looks like...........is scary. Add THAT to the list of things I did THEN, and don't do NOW.

 

[Troy Magrum]

I slid to the edge of a blue walled crevasse at baker two years ago and it left quite an impression. Yikes! with the long hot dry summer, we could see a few more of these beasts. Scary stuff