Landslides/Avalanches

[tommythecat]

A big one just hit by Mount Robson, they do not know if anyone is trapped. Check with friends and family to make sure they made it.

http://globalnews.ca/news/1079351/hwy-1 ... s-trapped/

[Troy]

http://www.castanet.net/news/BC/106499/Avalanche-covers-highway

No vehicles were caught under a large avalanche that rolled over Highway 16 and blocked off traffic on Monday near Mount Robson on the Alberta-BC boundary, said RCMP.

[tommythecat]

Now this is a rock slide!

http://www.castanet.net/edition/news-st ... htm#109475

[rustled]

Now this is a rock slide!

http://www.castanet.net/edition/news-st ... htm#109475

That is one massive slab!

[Atomoa]

The only way to get to the coast is via Hope/Princeton at this hour.

[Always Sunny]

Was today's slide between Castlegar and Creston? That looks a whole lot more like the corner at Christina Lake.

[LoneWolf_53]

That is one massive slab!

Isn't it though, just screaming to be sliced up into a half dozen granite countertops.

[Always Sunny]

Found my own answer...this is 3A north of Creston. I definitely wouldn't describe it as "between Castlegar and Creston". It's north towards the Crawford Bay ferry. I took this route on Tuesday. Roads were awful. The Kootenay pass is open though, and they're saying the east and west Kootenays are cut off from one another. Quite an overstatement.

[aginger1]

Tis the season for rock slides, and avalanches. Another victim loses his life skiing in the back country and the other three escaped with their lives. I wish people would listen to the warnings and not put themselves at risk. I myself would never go out in the back country where there is history of avalanches. Its such a shame that we lose so many lives to something that is so preventable. Snowmobilers too. Please people keep yourselves safe. Stay within the boundaries of safety.

[baconbits]

[Queen K]

That was interesting.

[Glacier]

Southeast landslide may be one of North America's largest ever



A massive landslide - so large that seismic networks recording earthquake activity detected its rumblings - has reshaped the contours of a mountain in Southeast Alaska.

Haines flightseeing pilot Drake Olson investigated the landslide, which he discovered about 62 nautical miles southwest of Haines on Mount La Perouse near the massive Brady Glacier in the Alaskan Panhandle.

It may be the largest natural landslide since the 2010 Bingham Canyon mine event, which was the largest North American landslide since humans have roamed the planet.

Durham University scientist David Petley reports on the La Perouse landslide and other significant slides around the earth for the American Geophysical Union's Landslide Blog.

Olson, who operates Fly Drake flightseeing and air service in Haines, flew over and took aerial images of the slide, which Petley estimates may have moved more than 20 million tons. Analyzing satellite imagery of the rock slide, Petley believes a vertical face of Mount La Perouse was sheered off, scattering mountainside and debris in an avalanche that extended nearly 5 miles.

The "crowning point" where the landslide originated came at about 9,186 feet up Mount La Perouse, with the avalanche toe at 3,477 feet, according to Petley's analysis.

Read more about the science behind seismologic analysis of landlslides around the world at the American Geophysical Union's Landslide Blog, where Petley and others offer several satellite and photographic images of the La Perouse slide.

Read more here: http://www.adn.com/2014/02/25/3345804/p ... rylink=cpy

NASA Pictures: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=83195

[Queen K]

BUMP

Again, an avalanche has claimed lives, this time possilbly three in the Panorama Ski resort
area.https://www.castanet.net/news/BC/413970 ... -Invermere

Two in the Cariboo and

https://globalnews.ca/news/9493785/aval ... golden-bc/

[GordonH]

My condolences to Families and Friends of latest victims.

[dreamon]

BUMP

Again, an avalanche has claimed lives, this time possilbly three in the Panorama Ski resort
area.https://www.castanet.net/news/BC/413970 ... -Invermere

One poor lady has lost her her father and husband.
The three dead are a 57-year-old clinic manager and his 34-year-old son-in-law in addition to a 57-year-old Eging am See council member.