Avalanche II course material

Extras

Avalanche movie: A Dozen More Turns

Part One

part two

Part three

Mt. Hood Meadows Anatomy of an Avalache

In the early evening of Sunday, January 17, 2010, a hard slab avalanche approximately ¾ of a mile wide near the top of the Wy’East face at the 10,650 foot level on Mt. Hood fractured and slid. The “crown” or fracture line ranged in depth from approximately four to ten feet and the incident triggered slides into three different watersheds – White River Canyon (between Meadows and Timberline), Newton Canyon (to the North of our permit area) and most significantly Clark Canyon, just inside our permit area.

http://www.skihood.com/Community-and-News/Meadows-Blog/Posts/2010/01/Anatomy-of-an-Avalanche

Utah Avalanche Center: Know Before You Go Video

http://utahavalanchecenter.org/kbyg_video

Massive Avalanche Hits Montana’s Saddle Peak

Yesterday morning around 11 a.m., a skier atop Saddle Peak near Bridger Bowl, Montana, accidentally broke a piece of cornice, which fell onto the slope and triggered an avalanche that stretched 1,000 feet from end to end, ran 2,000 feet, left a crown the height of a VW van, and deposited debris up to 20 feet deep. It swept away hundreds of old ski tracks and was witnessed by people at the Bridger Bowl ski area and numerous backcountry skiers on Saddle Peak itself. Miraculously, no one was killed, hurt, or even caught. Read more at The adventure life website