montoya 0 Posted October 31, 2006 Share Posted October 31, 2006 I've been looking over some pix from last year recently, here are a few various avie photos for anyone interested in this kind of stuff. 2005.12.14 kagura, ridge near gangamine. during 12/10-12/13 it snowed continually 2006.01.13 triggered while hiking up to nakaone. snowed pretty hard 2 days before this. 2006.03.25 big slide at Tairappyo a few days before. last pic is from the traverse out towards Tsuchitaru 2006.04.22 Makihatayama. old debris on left, fresh sluffs on right from snow earlier same morning 2006.04.29 Yarigatake. loose snow slides from previous day's 30-40cm new snow heating up Link to post Share on other sites
mattlucas 0 Posted October 31, 2006 Share Posted October 31, 2006 March 30, 2006 Tsugaike resort Big avy triggered by myself and FT April 17, 2006 Happo BC April 29, 2006 Wet snow slide May 6, 2006 Skiing out to ShinHotaka from Karasawa Valley. Massive slide debris I've got a load more but I think that's all that is on SJ Link to post Share on other sites
chop 0 Posted October 31, 2006 Share Posted October 31, 2006 scary stuff!! Link to post Share on other sites
damian 0 Posted October 31, 2006 Share Posted October 31, 2006 No picture of the actual rubble, but my girl and I were returning down a narrow valley after a spring tour. I heard and saw smalls lumps of snow bouncing down this cliff. Then a short pause. And then wham, a huge pile of snow crashed down the cliff for a few seconds and buried the path we were on in a few feet on compressed concrete. We were literally some 30 meters of so away from the cliff and had just said "lets go that way". In our written tour plan we even noted the danger of cliffs and steep rocks in the afternoon warmth (a classic risk in spring). How quickly you forget you plans: "by lunch time and after, stay away from cliffs and rocky faces". The snow came down in a wide torrent from the very top. It gave us a pretty serious moment for pause... we were so close to being under it. Link to post Share on other sites
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