http://www.wildsnow.com/559/avalanche-near-marble-colorado/ Backcountry Skiing Weblog Blog, FAQs, more, links and info about randonnee, telemark and backcountry ski mountaineering. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:20:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.wildsnow.com/559/avalanche-near-marble-colorado/comment-page-1/#comment-31293 bob franzoni Sun, 02 Jan 2011 02:17:22 +0000 http://www.wildsnow.com/?p=559#comment-31293 iknew rick and havent had contac with him or criss for 11 years iknew rick and havent had contac with him or criss for 11 years

]]> http://www.wildsnow.com/559/avalanche-near-marble-colorado/comment-page-1/#comment-5161 LBR Wed, 03 Jan 2007 21:33:08 +0000 http://www.wildsnow.com/?p=559#comment-5161 "Our snow pit today told the story. Super solid all the way to the ground." Sounds like a trip west is in order! “Our snow pit today told the story. Super solid all the way to the ground.”
Sounds like a trip west is in order!

]]> http://www.wildsnow.com/559/avalanche-near-marble-colorado/comment-page-1/#comment-5124 Anthony Benham Thu, 28 Dec 2006 14:10:03 +0000 http://www.wildsnow.com/?p=559#comment-5124 we were skiing up in the alleys on tue 12-26 me rick wilder and max taam and four dogs, we were outnumbered by the dogs but that is not unusual. someone else set the track on either christmas eve day or christmas day and opened the seal on alley three so we did a halfer in alley three and then went back up intending to open alley two. at the top of the small peak between two and three we stopped to do our thing and rick dropped his glove which rolled down the slope and two of the dogs went after it. they got to the glove, of course neither of them bring it back, and they’re kinda starting back up and rick hollars out it’s goin and sure enough it was. the crown did not extend to the dogs and no one rode, we were lucky, we had not imagined such a tender condition. we skied two along side it after that and enjoyed the snow that was left. the bed surface was an icy old suncrust which exists on the south aspect of each of those alley bowls esp. no name so the slopes that haven’t gone probably need just a little more snow and they could move on their own. we were up there again today and the wind blew hard overnight and harder slab to that bad snow that slid yesterday we were skiing up in the alleys on tue 12-26 me rick wilder and max taam and four dogs, we were outnumbered by the dogs but that is not unusual. someone else set the track on either christmas eve day or christmas day and opened the seal on alley three so we did a halfer in alley three and then went back up intending to open alley two. at the top of the small peak between two and three we stopped to do our thing and rick dropped his glove which rolled down the slope and two of the dogs went after it. they got to the glove, of course neither of them bring it back, and they’re kinda starting back up and rick hollars out it’s goin and sure enough it was. the crown did not extend to the dogs and no one rode, we were lucky, we had not imagined such a tender condition. we skied two along side it after that and enjoyed the snow that was left. the bed surface was an icy old suncrust which exists on the south aspect of each of those alley bowls esp. no name so the slopes that haven’t gone probably need just a little more snow and they could move on their own. we were up there again today and the wind blew hard overnight and harder slab to that bad snow that slid yesterday

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