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d_baker wrote: ↑Mon Feb 15, 2021 5:55 pm
I don't know George, I didn't write it only guessed at probable typo.
Is Bosco your password to get logged in here?
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Jorts wrote: ↑Mon Feb 15, 2021 5:03 pm
What does DPL stand for?
Deep persistent layer (instead of slab)?
Depth hoar?
Yeah, deep persistent layer.
Sure, sometimes it can be depth hoar. Sometimes it's buried surface hoar, graupel, or rain crust. Anything that causes a week interface in the snow pack between a slab and a bed surface and is buried and difficult to trigger. Slab sandwich and all...
Dave B wrote: ↑Mon Feb 15, 2021 9:31 pm
Yeah, deep persistent layer.
Sure, sometimes it can be depth hoar. Sometimes it's buried surface hoar, graupel, or rain crust. Anything that causes a week interface in the snow pack between a slab and a bed surface and is buried and difficult to trigger. Slab sandwich and all...
Thanks. I'd just never seen that abbreviation before.
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Its certainly good to see the numbers improving, but also keep in mind we are like 2-1/2 weeks away from normal peak. Many of these areas that are behind are going to need at least 200% of their average the next 2-1/2 weeks to get to 100% by April 10. Its always harder to catch up the closer you get to the end of the season. I'll take being in the 90% range though given how this season was playing out.
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CaptCO wrote: ↑Wed Mar 24, 2021 3:36 pm
How common are out of bounds slides on hike to terrain in resorts? Tragedy from 3/22 at Beaver Creek
We also had the East Vail fatality this season and UT has had 2 sidecountry fatalities. If I'm not missing any that's 4/35 nationally this year.
There was another buried and rescued in East Vail, and someone was buried and killed on Mt Trelease, which is next to Loveland Ski Area. Not sure if they accessed through the ski area or via Dry Gulch.
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There was another buried and rescued in East Vail, and someone was buried and killed on Mt Trelease, which is next to Loveland Ski Area. Not sure if they accessed through the ski area or via Dry Gulch.
Unfortunately, the good work of Feb. and March that went into building the snowpack seems likely to be undone by this warm April weather. With it comes an increasing risk of wet slide avalanches.