Sunday, March 25, 2007

Pushing the envelope.

A couple of shots from the hill just off Annainaks pond.
This avalanche was human triggered, most likely a ski doo high marker, there are several tracks leading into the run off area..
This is the same spot that two snow borders triggered an avalanche last year, one of the youth at a lower level was partly buried, his buddy dug him put.
Fortunately the whole pack did not come down this time, there are large clumps of snow that did not move far, but are big enough to bury a person and snow mobile if they had been in the area.

Annainaks pond is the reserve water supply for the town. A pipe runs down the hill from the pond, if needed valves are turned on to run water down into the dame.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Hi Brian

great pictures- would love to be able to use them in our presentations on avalanches - your neighbour the avalanche/ mountaineering guy has sent me plenty over the years also, and have used some in my book "Killer Snow" - see
http://www.flankerpress.com/killer_snow.shtml

which also has the story of the worst avalanche disaster in eastern Canada- near Nain in 1782/83 in it. Anyway, drop me a line at dliverman@gov.nl.ca

Dave Liverman