Avalanche on KT-22. One reported dead:
https://www.sfchronicle.com/tahoe/article/avalanche-palisades-tahoe-ski-resort-18600767.php
Here's an active thread on SkiTalk.com
https://www.skitalk.com/threads/2023-2024-tahoe-ski-resorts-conditions-meetups.31249/post-943024
Yeah I saw that - given the wacky weather here I am sure T.G. Met. (temperature gradient metamorphism) had a role in this.
Laurel Hill Crazie wrote:
Avalanche on KT-22. One reported dead:
https://www.sfchronicle.com/tahoe/article/avalanche-palisades-tahoe-ski-resort-18600767.php
A fatality unfortunately, plus other people injured. Was in the KT-22 area.
1 killed, 3 injured in avalanche at Palisades Tahoe ski resort, California officials say - Jan. 10, 2024
teleman wrote:
Makes me want to buy a beacon and wear it while skiing out west.
All of the instructors I've worked with more than once out west wear a beacon in-bounds. The one who lives in NC and spends the winters teaching at Alta puts it on when he leaves his apartment for the drive up LCC. He and the others have mentioned the idea to me in the last few years now that I ski 80% off-piste when the snow is good during trips to big mountains.
Haven't used it yet, but did research and buy one during the summer. The basic models are a lot lighter and smaller than even a few years ago. My primary ski buddy has had one for a while. The other ski buddy who retired more recently is using what he bought a couple years ago for a trip to Japan.
I'd highy recommend getting a beeper. Gosh the new ones are so much better than my old Otovox F1. Trick is if you go down you need to be skiing with others that have the same or else your survivablilty rate drops. You don't have to be back-country for this to happen. This is not the first time I've heard of this in-bounds I remember at the former The Canyons it happened in a controlled area. If you are interested there are many avi-aware classes you can take.
teleman wrote:
Makes me want to buy a beacon and wear it while skiing out west.
Hi Crush, Paul Ramer invented a beacon. He invented Zardoz NotWax.
https://wildsnow.com/26497/ramer-echo-avalanche-history/
Weather is much stranger from my past years.
David S. had extensive training in avalanches. He showed me how much to learn.
Be well out west.
Zardog
KC3YFZ Kilo Charlie Three Yankee Foxtrot Zulu
"I passed the FCC Exam"
... and another one in-bounds. Thankfully no one was caught. I just know the weak layers under the heavy recent snow and the warm start are the cause. This one appears to not be skier-triggered (clearly) it just rolled. In 2021 Park City Mountain closed the 9990 back country gate because that one that goes into Dutch's Draw was the most deadly avi-prone gate in Utah. I remember Lance Brevard and I skiied that on a heavy day and I said "man, we can't go past the saddle that is where you will die for sure." Some places are just too tricky and I'd rather not be ground into mush with a big slab one. Like one ski patroller said (he recovered a body) "it's like a trashbag filled with red jello". Not for me nope.
https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article284147018.html
Same topic - differnt state ---
Colorado Avalanche Center has advised people to stay away from all avalanche terrain in the state -- with over 500 slides reported so far.
