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Avalanche at Perfect North in Indiana

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wolfmansbro
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Jan 12 2006 8:05PM
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Billiards.
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bahaha
Mar 5 2006 11:07PM
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DuncanK
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Shit, whoda thunk there was an avy in the midwest. Thats crazy. Was anyone hurt?
Mar 5 2006 11:15PM
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corey74
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i no its not funny.. but how the hell did that happen.. i dont think that has ever happened before..
Mar 5 2006 11:27PM
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1440ski
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Haha That is funny if no one got hurt
Mar 5 2006 11:35PM
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VANULAR
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thats happened in e-ville Ny before too.....thats fucking craaazy.
Mar 6 2006 1:44AM
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tfeiss
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yeah this sucked, knocked two lift towers on two different chairlifts, one all the way to the ground, the other just a couple degrees off, but, we had one lift running in under 6 hours, and had the other chairlift going in 3 days, we hand carried 20 tons of concrete to that tower, and mixed and poured it, i spent 36 of 48 hours carrying and mixing concrete, and as for least amount of snow in avalanche, it was something like 30 million tons of snow, being as it was manmade its alot denser snow and weight wise is quite a bit plus your seeing pics of it after half a day of pushing, the grass spot was almost 3 times as big before we started pushing, at the bottom where the steep meets our park the snow was almost 16 feet deep, as far as riding it, no way, the snow was pretty much cement... and the skiing at perfects is way badass....we just happened to have an avy this year
Mar 6 2006 9:33AM
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QuazBotch
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My ski lump in Ontario was closed for a day due to "Unstable Snow Conditions". I wonder if this could have happened there too.
Mar 6 2006 9:38AM
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linedawg
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wow too funny, is the pfc going to still be on?
Mar 6 2006 2:14PM
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salamander
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i am from perfect north, thats the resort this is a pic of. that happened twice this year, they fixed it pretty fast though.
Mar 6 2006 2:35PM
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ecski73
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hell yeh, that was at the begining of the season
Mar 6 2006 3:02PM
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steph32
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No way man, PFC III has yet to come. It is March 18-19. "Jib the Turtle".
Mar 6 2006 3:05PM
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dbag37
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he meant the avy was at the beginning of the season, so it will not disrupt pfc
Mar 6 2006 3:08PM
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casualfiasco
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hahahaahahhahahahahhahahahahaha thats hilarious i didnt even know they had mountains in indiana
Mar 6 2006 3:16PM
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Gigantaface
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that mountain is the size of a babies Mons Pubis
Mar 6 2006 5:06PM
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cravenmoorehed
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ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha, thats a mountain?
Mar 6 2006 6:34PM
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sktrkdo7
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great minds think alike
Mar 6 2006 6:40PM
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alev
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i live on the ice coast...i was sad to not even had ice cover my dirt. i saw flowers blooming in early feb this year. theyre dead now but still
Mar 6 2006 7:11PM
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timmi
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no, they built the tower limp, and on an angle.
Mar 6 2006 7:56PM
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Gigantaface
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a female newborns mons pubis
Mar 6 2006 9:16PM
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kingsskier
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Again this thread is dead...But when did this happen I think I remember it but never saw pics/ the hill.... And dont be hating on our place to ski. It is def not a mountain lol but the park is really good for Indiana especially
Nov 29 2006 8:38PM
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MadSteezin
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thts not even an avalanche. its like a snow slide.
Nov 29 2006 9:02PM
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skiierman
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Hahaha, I didn't think it was impossible, but I've never seen that before.
Nov 29 2006 9:08PM
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Casey
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Why are there two chairlifts like 50 feet away from each other?
Nov 29 2006 9:16PM
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kingsskier
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One goes higher on the hill to get to a cut through run and for crowded days...
Nov 29 2006 9:19PM
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dweezileast
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and that's why we wait until the ground freezes to make snow.
Nov 29 2006 10:12PM
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papasteeze
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That groomer is pink!!

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Nov 29 2006 10:46PM
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Mr.Bishop
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Holy fuck so you really can die just about anywhere in an avalanche?
Mar 12 2014 11:55AM
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swoger
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+vibes
Mar 12 2014 11:59AM
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AlexMartini
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haha nice doug
Mar 12 2014 2:25PM
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Chunter
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It's a blessing Goepper survived this back in the day. WE COULD HAVE LOST HIM SO YOUNG.
Mar 12 2014 2:31PM
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Ribss.
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So fucking awesome. How does that even happen? hahaha
Mar 12 2014 3:03PM
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Drail
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When I saw the pictures, I thought I was looking at 'the wall' at Holiday Valley.




Remember to wear your beacons inbounds when the sun comes out you midwest/east coasters, and always ski with a buddy!


wait, what?
Mar 12 2014 3:04PM
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theabortionator
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Ridonkulous
Mar 12 2014 3:06PM
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Heart
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what in the hell? PNS is literally the last place in the US i'd expect to see an avalanche at.
Mar 12 2014 3:17PM
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Mr.Huck
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Quality bump. I wonder if anyone in Indiana even knows what an avalanche beacon is. Also, do you think they are now digging pits on that face before skiing it, or maybe ski patrol is now dropping charges on it.
Mar 12 2014 3:19PM
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ny300z
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lol if ski patrol dropped a charge on that hill it would be gone!
Mar 12 2014 3:39PM
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Mr.Bishop
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Yeah can anyone with avy knowledge explain this?
Mar 12 2014 5:21PM
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mski
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Nothing like an inbounds lanche
Mar 12 2014 5:25PM
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Lake-Dog
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haha someone went diggin for this
Mar 12 2014 6:40PM
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freestyler540
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someone's got memory
Mar 12 2014 6:46PM
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JustStartingPark
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Mountain? What mountain? Yes I ski there
Mar 12 2014 7:50PM
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theabortionator
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Idk how steep that is but places in the east have slid from having way too much mad made snow blown on steep headwalls.

Not sure for other factors but that's a lot of weight hanging on a steep area. Would suck to be in a cat riding something like that though.
Mar 12 2014 8:43PM
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Mr.Huck
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They must be screwing up the air to water ratio. The man made snow I grew up skiing in the East would and often did stick to lift towers. The stuff wouldn't slide on a lubed Trojan.
Mar 12 2014 9:53PM
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Aenigma
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I think someone earlier in the thread said it had been warm for several days prior, without dropping below freezing. That would allow water to trickle down to what I assume is more or less smooth grass, where it would continue to flow down the hill. A big slab of man-made snow is heavy, and there is a convex roller at the top of the hill, so it really is an oddly textbook example of how an avalanche can happen.

There is an area at Bridger Bowl by the unloading area of the old Alpine lift that is sort of similar. It's about a 35 degree grass slope that gets quite a bit of snow built up on it, and pretty much every spring it cracks to the ground at the top and moves down the hill a bit.
Mar 12 2014 10:09PM
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Turd.Ferguson
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lol what midwest are you livin in??? we've had the most snowfall here in years.


butthurt because theres not enough snow for u to get 'faceshots'
Mar 12 2014 10:10PM
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Mr.Bishop
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So you're telling me that this is not an isolated small mountain avalanche?

I'm feeling less safe by the minute here.

Really though in the end the key is a big solid heavy layer sitting on top of something that is really slippery? Is that the recipe for a slide?

Remember - talk to a complete idiot here. I'm 157% uneducated in avalanches so I have no idea what causes them.
Mar 12 2014 10:15PM
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Chunter
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butthurt because 2006 had awful snowfall and you didn't bother to check the dates.
Mar 12 2014 10:27PM
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Mr.Huck
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Mar 12 2014 10:28PM
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Mr.Bishop
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So if I imagined this guy precariously sitting at the top of a huge slip and slide with me at the bottom... and that slip and slide was on a convex slope that was kind of steep with water running down it... and the only thing holding him at the top was a beach towel that didn't look too stable....

I'd essentially understand avalanches?

Mar 12 2014 10:49PM
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Mr.Huck
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In all seriousness, most of the time the skier triggers the slide that kills them. The slides that seemingly happen without a trigger are the ones that scare me the most. I had a good friend who got sideswiped and killed. They were traversing out of a drainage we had skied many times when an east facing wall slid on them. It took two of my friends. One got spit out, and the other one, they didn't find until the next morning. They weren't on that pitch at all. An elk fart could have triggered it for all we know. This is a about 1000 feet below where Tony Seibert was killed.
Mar 12 2014 11:12PM
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