Avalanche!

June 1st, 2006 - A large slide off of the NW slopes of Mt Barrille caused by a collapsing cornice.

We expected the avalanche activity to really pick up as the temperatures cooled with the evening hours. Heathfield, Buchanan, and I dug out seats in the snow to watch the show, and we weren't disappointed. This was the largest of perhaps 20 separate slides that we saw come down in the area over about an hour's time.

Sadly, despite Heathfield's wishes for Buchanan and my baptisms in flying powder, we didn't get powderblasted by any of the slides.

For scale, that slide was about 150-200 feet wide.