January 2011 - Conditions

[treemongrol]

Boydo section

 

[treemongrol]

No trees were harmed in the making of these pictures Ride safe people at home are counting
on you to come back.

 

[Mike270412]

EPIC!!! Pictures

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[CUSO]

Your supposed to dig a pit on the side of a hill, not in a creek bed!! LOL

 

[treemongrol]

Re: Januarvideo of somebody going over the handlebars when they jiy 2011 - Conditions

Your supposed to dig a pit on the side of a hill, not in a creek bed!! LOL

Actually it was a open field we put it there cause we thought it was good spot to get video of somebody going over the handlebars

 

[Quagmire]

Nice pictures Treemongrol. Nice to see I am not the ony one with a tree magnet... Last weekwnd I only broke my ski handle off of my left ski. Rode it like that anyway. Good pics.

 

[Sledtillded]

Rode Renshaw Friday. stayed in the ant hills and blackwater meadows all day. went in on 27 behind hotrod and his group, that was a work out. 2 slides, one off the anthills side and one down onto the meadows off the slope on the east side. the one off the anthills was a size 4 avy taking 8-10 inch trees with it and running across the anthills down through the trees right to the blackwater meadows, massive slide. snow was great to play in but you had to think about where to ride to be safe. sunny for the next couple of days i will be going up to take some pic's for the CAA and will post, the pic's I took on Friday did not turn out as it was snowing to much and I didn't want to get any closer with the lack of vis and not being able to see above.
Lucille yesterday for a SAR course and hill climb sledder knocked another avy loose and came back to the cabin covered in snow, lucky to have made it through that one. this one was the slope beside the rollercoaster.
please be careful out there, in my opinion the risk is still high even if it is reported as considerable.

I thought i would post some pics of the 2 HUGE avys at Renshaw. Was quit a sight from the trail but ominous when up close. Showed up 10 mins after it ran. Was dissapointed to hear they were triggered by sledders (as was told did not see it) and of course happy no one was caught, these two slopes are insane steep and should have been a no brainer to
STAY OFF................. THis is the kind of stuff that gives all sledders a bad rap.............THese were reall eye openers for the one's trying to stay safe, because sticking to the main beaten path up through the saddle while these guys were highmarking a near verticle slope whould have put you under 20 feet of concrete. As far as the conditions go, i feel this is relevant info for all........ we played in the trees, meadows and lakes......had a blast and did not have any issues, even with a "considerable" rating.

 

[CUSO]

I thought i would post some pics of the 2 HUGE avys at Renshaw. Was quit a sight from the trail but ominous when up close. Showed up 10 mins after it ran. Was dissapointed to hear they were triggered by sledders (as was told did not see it) and of course happy no one was caught, these two slopes are insane steep and should have been a no brainer to
STAY OFF................. THis is the kind of stuff that gives all sledders a bad rap.............THese were reall eye openers for the one's trying to stay safe, because sticking to the main beaten path up through the saddle while these guys were highmarking a near verticle slope whould have put you under 20 feet of concrete. As far as the conditions go, i feel this is relevant info for all........ we played in the trees, meadows and lakes......had a blast and did not have any issues, even with a "considerable" rating.

MASSIVE!!! Can you say...mile away trigger?? Good to see the pics. Many can learn from this I hope...
Hope that people are reading these reports instead of just heading out and putting on the blinders. Do the test yourself, the CAC reports are informative, but general, and used as a guideline. This proves that you need to look for your own conditions.

 

[Sleeper700]

Where was the 2nd avy (last picture)? It looks like maybe anthills?

 

[glengine]

The guys that triggered the big one by the saddle stopped in at the shop at the end of the day and were talkin to me about it. They told me that they weren't climbing on the hill, they were crossing it to get to the saddle. three went across and the others waited and then they started to go across and it started to move and they were able to get turned around and out of it's path barely before it went past them. I wasn't there this is just they told me at the end of the day.

 

[gm3d]

Great pics sledtildead. We heard that the same group cut the second one loose as well. I think that was posted by bbtoys. You can clearly see in the last pic, the tracks up into the slide area. The risk is real and we all must NOT have the "it won't happen to me attitude!" I couldn't beleive how deep the debri was at the saddle! Wouldn't have been good if someone was caught up in it! Use good judgement and play safe. It is a black eye for the sport when someone dies. The grief for the family is insurmountable!

 

[Summitric]

Thanks for posting the pics........wow!!! That avy by the saddle had some speed to it, and it even started up the other side of the valley. It's now an even bigger risk, because the broken off slab edge now has now support, and if it lets go, will drag even more of that snow down the hill. As we learned in the avy course we took a few weeks ago, there is a facette layer(sugar snow) pretty much at ground level and it is six inches to a foot thick, and then 4 or five layers above it....play safe, play smart, live!!!

 

[maxwell]

there was no snow on that hill why would you even atttempt to climb that.

thanks for the pics

 

[Showtime]

The guys that triggered the big one by the saddle stopped in at the shop at the end of the day and were talkin to me about it. They told me that they weren't climbing on the hill, they were crossing it to get to the saddle. three went across and the others waited and then they started to go across and it started to move and they were able to get turned around and out of it's path barely before it went past them. I wasn't there this is just they told me at the end of the day.

I wasn't there but the comments i heard from my buddy is that they were bragging at the cabin how they triggered the avy's and got away both times. Friggin idiots.

 

[maxwell]

dont talk down to guys that setoff stupid avys. its not welcome on this site. they may have been up jackson hole and know whats up.

 

[hughie]

dont talk down to guys that setoff stupid avys. its not welcome on this site. they may have been up jackson hole and know whats up.

I think everyone appreciates an unopinionated updated even if it is second hand info, its the "I know everything, and heres how I see it and must be that way because I dont know if I told you but I know everything, even though I actually know f@ck all because I was not there attitude" that gets people, all other info is muchly appreciated I believe

 

[maxwell]

I wasn't there but the comments i heard from my buddy is that they were bragging at the cabin how they triggered the avy's and got away both times. Friggin idiots.

that happened on sunday where i was riding too..

it was some big joke.....?

 

[higher n you]

I watched them cut loose both avis. They were sidehilling the saddle when it came down. 3 guys made it over the saddle and had no clue what happened. The remaining started searching with their beacons untill the 3 showed up. The second avi I could not believe the face they were on. It let loose and everyone at the bottom scrambled. We spoke to them at the cabin and they still thought they were being safe as if mother nature only struck where they were. They also triggered a 3rd small slide but were upset at one fellow over it.

 

[CUSO]

These type of people WILL eventually bring forth legislation to shut the backcountry when the conditions are considerable or higher.... Just watch.

 

[Mike270412]

This thread is soooooo last month!

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