SnowConnection 0 Posted May 22, 2005 Share Posted May 22, 2005 There were many articles for May 20 A-Basin avalanche fatal. http://www.summitdaily.com/ http://www.summitdaily.com/article/20050521/NEWS/50520003 A TTips thread reported unusual warming at A-Basin few days before the accident independently. Two points interest me. One is the avalanche occured in a skiing area even it was an expert zone. The other is it might depend to the global warming. I would focus on the later. In Japan, about 40 years ago, we had much snow. The well-known one is San-Pachi Mega Snow ( ３８豪雪 ) in Feb 1963. My memory tells there were much avalanche damange and toll. I saw many avy accidents among mountaineers. In scceeding ten years recently, we have heard many tradegies by land slides caused by heavy rain, instead of snow avalanche accidents. I remember Otari land slide in June 1996 where 14 workers were killed. When you have chance to visit Onagi-san or Amakazari-yama, you may see a "open land area" left side of the road just before arriving at Otari Onsen ( 小谷温泉 ). There was a village totally vanished. We may have to pay more attentions to rock falls (by snow melting), icy terrains (melting by daylight & freezing in night), and thin snow bridges (than ones described in guide books) in spring snowing. The global warming comes step by step steadily. Link to post Share on other sites
sava 0 Posted May 23, 2005 Share Posted May 23, 2005 I think it's very sad that there was a fatality for inbounds, opened, terrain. Link to post Share on other sites
SnowConnection 0 Posted May 24, 2005 Author Share Posted May 24, 2005 Yes, very very sad. http://www.telemarktips.com/FSabasinAvy.html Link to post Share on other sites
dizzy 0 Posted May 31, 2005 Share Posted May 31, 2005 so sad. i used to live in boulder and A-Basin is still my fav colorado resort. i wonder what time this unfortunate skier was skiing. they usually close the chutes at 1 p.m. or so. RIP and ride carefully Link to post Share on other sites
taguchi 0 Posted September 11, 2005 Share Posted September 11, 2005 Is there much control/patrol of guest at that resort? Link to post Share on other sites
Fattwins 0 Posted September 12, 2005 Share Posted September 12, 2005 lots of control there that one was controlled but it gave way for some reason. Link to post Share on other sites
Ocean11 0 Posted September 14, 2005 Share Posted September 14, 2005 How can you rest in peace and ride carefully at the same time? I don't get that bit...? Link to post Share on other sites
montoya 0 Posted October 21, 2005 Share Posted October 21, 2005 old news, but here's the offical report for anyone interseted: http://www.fs.fed.us/r2/news/2005/09/Factual_Report_pgs_1-37_and_report.pdf Link to post Share on other sites
SnowConnection 0 Posted October 22, 2005 Author Share Posted October 22, 2005 montaya, thanks. The pictures interest me. Link to post Share on other sites
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