High Campbell no more

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10 Mar 2014 18:33 - 10 Mar 2014 18:49 #221157 by pipedream

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Crystal's ski patrol got that deep instability to react today. The resulting slide from the top of the Throne cleared out the bottom of the High Campbell chair. I suppose it's derailed for the last time (and maybe that upgrade "a few years away" will come much sooner).

Pics from Crystal Mountain's FB page :

RIP, Chair 6

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10 Mar 2014 18:36 #221158 by lrudholm

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Ahhhhhh.. ski patrol wanted a new chairlift.

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10 Mar 2014 18:43 #221159 by pipedream

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It only figures that less than a week after they built their first jump line since the 90s a controlled slide ripped out the chair to their premier freeriding terrain. Talk about a rollercoaster of emotions...

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10 Mar 2014 18:44 #221160 by jj

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I guess this is proof that something good can come from an avalanche

In the last video and pics that Crystal has posted I've noticed a fair amount of what appears to be brown dirt on the slide path. Does anyone know what layer these slides are occurring on? Is is something earlier than the Jan layer we've been talking about? Are we sliding all the way down to bare ground in some cases?

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10 Mar 2014 19:46 #221164 by flowing alpy

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bear pits did

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10 Mar 2014 19:48 #221165 by haggis

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Wow, that's incredible! I want chair 69 when they sell them off, make a great swing in the back garden.

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10 Mar 2014 19:55 #221166 by joeb

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RIP chair 6.

My ass spent many a great day cradled by those chairs. It was usually a slow, cold ride and not very comfortable especially with a pack on, but I always enjoyed getting to know my fellow pow hounds that I would ride with on a busy day or the quiet solitude, rest and awesome views on a slow day.

I think forever more March 10 should be declared a national ski holiday known as High Campbell day.

South back will definitely be a whole new adventure.

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10 Mar 2014 20:16 #221168 by jdclimber

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Does anyone have any good "before" pictures taken from similar vantage points?

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10 Mar 2014 20:23 - 10 Mar 2014 20:28 #221169 by Scotsman

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No more ddk Powder Bowel ( sic) reports for a while....Oh no!

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10 Mar 2014 20:32 #221170 by Joedabaker

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Lemons into lemonade...Time to build a 1/2 pipe out of the debris!
Did the snow stake survive? I see the last posted time was seconds before the blast.

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10 Mar 2014 20:35 #221171 by davidG

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No more ddk Powder Bowel ( sic) reports for a while....Oh no!

ok, that's pretty funny..

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10 Mar 2014 20:36 #221172 by pipedream

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One more picture:

For jdclimber, here's one from an older blog post about the access points into Avalanche Basin ( source ):

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10 Mar 2014 20:43 #221174 by Joedabaker

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Ron can conduct his crevasse training classes now at Crystal.

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10 Mar 2014 21:36 #221177 by Griff

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Now that is sad. I too have spent many a day on that chair. RIP!!

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10 Mar 2014 21:47 #221180 by ddk

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No more ddk Powder Bowel ( sic) reports for a while....Oh no!

Very truely sad

. Glad I got a couple last nice runs with Silas on Friday...That was probably the start of the big slide...chair 6 was running faster than it has all season - almost like the good old days - probably big voretex torque thing going on twisting all of Campbell Basin.

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10 Mar 2014 21:54 #221181 by SquakMtn

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I too have fond memories of that chair; riding it on the first day it was open, jumping off at the low point above the cliffs in a big snow year because the chair was stalled and I was going to be late for teaching my class, a weekday in April when we skied Brain Damage 5 consecutive times, and many many stormy rides up for face shots on the way down.

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10 Mar 2014 21:56 - 12 Mar 2014 14:20 #221182 by silaswild

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Does anyone have any good "before" pictures taken from similar vantage points?

March 7 photo, before the throne opened. This whole basin slid?!!! What a difference three days makes.

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10 Mar 2014 22:35 #221185 by jdclimber

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Much appreciated for the comparison pics. Please keep em coming. With the foggy vis and obliterated landmarks it really helps to get an idea of what happened and where.

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11 Mar 2014 09:29 #221190 by joeb

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Check out the webcam pic of the CB snowstake frozen in time a mere seconds before an icy death.

Long live CB snowstake!

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11 Mar 2014 09:38 #221191 by Jonn-E

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Umm, what's a jump line?

Also, as opposed to stepping down to the base it appears the dirt came from the upper stand of trees where the pack is shallow over a terrain feature, then dragged down to make the brown streaks <insert obvious joke here>.

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11 Mar 2014 10:03 #221192 by aaron_wright

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In the first photo, why don't people walk the ridge and ski it from the top?

March 7 photo, before the throne opened. This whole basin slid?!!! What a difference three days makes.

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11 Mar 2014 10:15 #221194 by Jason4

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Umm, what's a jump line?

It's an inefficient path that snowboarders use to get to the bottom of the hill where periods of downhill (efficient) travel are punctuated with uphill features (inefficient) that lead to varying amounts of air under the travellers feet. Sometimes aerial manuevers are performed that serve no purpose to improving the downhill travel. Laughter and smiles usually follow.

Skiers adopted the activity after seeing how much fun snowboarders had and soon after "slopestyle" became a new Olympic sport.

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11 Mar 2014 10:22 #221195 by Pete A

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random factoid for those that don't know.... High Campbell used to be one of the chairs at Yodelin and was moved to Crystal after Yodelin shut down.

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11 Mar 2014 11:20 - 11 Mar 2014 11:29 #221197 by Lowell_Skoog

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In the first photo, why don't people walk the ridge and ski it from the top?

Walking the ridge requires passing through a backcountry gate. Silas' caption says the picture was taken before the gate opened.

Traversing across the basin does not require passing through a gate. The traverse is open whenever Chair 6 is open. It's amazing to think of how much that slope has been skied during the season, and it still broke loose.

I think it would be awesome to get somebody from the Crystal Mountain avalanche patrol to talk at NSAW about what they look for when fighting a deep slab problem like this. It might provide a good heads-up for backcountry skiers thinking about early spring conditions.

They obviously had a pretty good clue that this was possible. Maybe based on the Employee Housing slide they released the previous day.

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11 Mar 2014 12:27 #221199 by Eric Lindahl

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Hadn't heard the term Jump Line before either. Correct me if I'm wrong but from what Jason4 says I'm thinking its a series of jumps/features built from piled up snow for doing aerial tricks or what ever. I did notice the jump line(?) last week under Forest Queen that hadn't been built there for some years. Aerial acrobatic series jumps were first used around 1971 by the original freestyle skiing circuit sponsored by Chevy. I saw them in Sun Valley and Vail back then. There will be a reunion and recognition of these original "hotdog" skiers, (Wayne Wong et, al) in Park City during Ski Hall of Fame week ~April 1-6.

Too bad about chair 6, RIP

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11 Mar 2014 12:37 #221200 by Jason4

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What? Skiers had fun before snowboarding was popular? ;D

I'm going to stick with my belief that if it weren't for splitboarding then backcountry monoskiing would never have caught on.

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11 Mar 2014 13:22 #221201 by Kneel Turner

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Yeah, but BC mono skiing could never have been imagined without Nordic boarding.

What? Skiers had fun before snowboarding was popular? ;D

I'm going to stick with my belief that if it weren't for splitboarding then backcountry monoskiing would never have caught on.

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11 Mar 2014 13:38 #221202 by Bandit

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My best shot as a Liftie. A couple years old when CH 6 was still running at full speed. :

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11 Mar 2014 15:48 #221206 by pipedream

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An aerial view of the slide which wiped out 6:
www.kirotv.com/videos/news/raw-video-cho...tal-mountain/vCS52N/

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11 Mar 2014 16:58 #221210 by Scole

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The crown looks GINORMOUS. Wow.

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