MIKE HALL: Adventure Motorcycle,Travel, Motorcycle, Overlanding, Backcountry, Avalanche, Snowmobile, Snowboard, Snowboard, Sledboarding, Winter Fat Tire Mountain Bike, Mountain Bike, Ski Patrol @ Montana, Colorado, Wyoming, Oregon, Utah, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Jackman, Maine
Showing posts with label GNFAC. Show all posts
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Monday, February 07, 2011

Mount Blackmore Instability - 6 Feb 2011



Mount Blackmore is located just south of Bozeman, Montana.

Monday, January 03, 2011

Bacon Rind = Good Stability - 2 Jan 2011



This video is a great follow-up to the earlier test on Bacon Rind. Bacon Rind is located just northwest of the town, West Yellowstone, south of Big Sky, Montana.

Doug gives a good explanation of how the snowpack can strengthen itself. It is useful to see the snowpack evaluations being done by a pro.

Thursday, January 07, 2010

Avalanche on the Throne

This is an area that I have snowboarded on in the past. I always dig a pit and check conditions. It is a 5-6 mile snowmobile ride in and then a hike up for snowboarding. Many different faces and possibilities in this area.


This year is going to be a sketchy year in the backcountry with the cold early season temps and the facets buried deep in the snowpack. We saw the same conditions back in December in Wyoming and northern Colorado. Watch yourself out there, take the time to dig a pit and check the snowpack.

Later.

Saturday, December 12, 2009

Hyalite Avalanche Fatality-10 December 2009

This is the same snowpack we found in Wyoming on Wednesday, during the blizzard. The skis of the snowmobile would break the snow into chunks on the top layer and the track would spin down into the sugary, fauceted snow down below. We just had to ride a little more aggressively to keep forward momentum while weaving through the trees.