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Near Death Experiences

Posted February 20, 2012

It started out like any good powder day.  Fresh snow, good friends, strong legs. While the avalanche bulletin rated the risk as "considerable", things felt stable and the powder beckoned.  There were about 10 or so people in the circle I was skiing with that morning...everyone was talking about head…

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Tagged as mount cain, powder, back country, and avalanche

Bad decisions

Posted January 9, 2012

The Canadian Avalanche Association describes a Size 1 avalanche as relatively harmless to people with a mass of 10 tonnes, a run of 10 metres and a force of 10 kilopascals.  The CAA describes a Size 2 avalanche as on that could "bury, injure or kill a person".  Typically with a mass of 100 tonnes, a…

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It was a dark and stormy night...

Posted March 22, 2011

Really - it was.  At least until we drove past Sayward.  Then, all of a sudden, the rain stopped and the road was dry and we made pretty good time up to Mount Cain.  No getting stuck this week as I had my new chains (which are awesome).

Saturday dawned  cloudy and snowy, but we were still able to…

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Tagged as mount cain, powder, avalanche, avalanche bulletin, danger, snow, and skiing
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