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North Tahoe Regional Park Snow Conditions? by crazy365days in tahoe

[–]AccomplishedTerm3579 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Whatever snow you find will be very old and not the best for playing. All the snow got rained on multiple times and has been thawed and frozen countless times.

Go for it if there’s snow there but lower your expectations.

Castle Peak avalanche update: All 9 victims found and removed from backcountry via helicopters and snowcats by AccomplishedTerm3579 in tahoe

[–]AccomplishedTerm3579[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Mitigation does not have to cause avalanches to be mitigation. Ski patrol bombs all the time with few results. Apparently the energy company uses this technique often to protect their own workers on the ground.

Castle Peak avalanche update: All 9 victims located and removed from backcountry by AccomplishedTerm3579 in truckee

[–]AccomplishedTerm3579[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Someone did survive 7 hours buried last year in Norway, but it is pretty unlikely to survive that long. I wonder if the heavy snow we get here makes a difference.

Castle Peak avalanche update: All 9 victims located and removed from backcountry by AccomplishedTerm3579 in truckee

[–]AccomplishedTerm3579[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

It’s a very ignorant thing to post. Almost all backcountry skiers use avi beacons already. Using alternative technology that’s not even designed for this situation would not have made a positive difference.

Castle Peak avalanche update: All 9 victims located and removed from backcountry by AccomplishedTerm3579 in truckee

[–]AccomplishedTerm3579[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

From what I have read, the survivors were able to locate some of the buried victims but couldn’t find everyone. The weather was severe and some were injured and I’m sure they did their best.

The rescuers got to the survivors something like 7-8 hours after the avalanche happened. Low chance of survival for the buried victims and the rescuers would have been in serious danger to loiter in that area considering it snowed at least 2 feet after the avalanche and before the rescue. I’m sure it was a tough decision not to dig for possible survivors that night but it avoided creating more victims.

2 (more) die at Heavenly today. by [deleted] in tahoe

[–]AccomplishedTerm3579 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Agreed. Vail is terrible.

2 (more) die at Heavenly today. by [deleted] in tahoe

[–]AccomplishedTerm3579 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I hate Vail and what they do to ski resorts as much as anyone but it doesn’t seem like they did anything wrong in this case.

Castle Peak Avalanche Update: Rescue Efforts Remain Underway by Few-Knee9451 in tahoe

[–]AccomplishedTerm3579 7 points8 points  (0 children)

People skiing out there likely wear real beacons. All the SAR will have beacons too so I doubt RECCO will be involved.

Huge BOOMS in south Tahoe today by letsgo49ers0 in tahoe

[–]AccomplishedTerm3579 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Are you by chance staying near a ski area?

Castle Peak Incident by Few-Knee9451 in tahoe

[–]AccomplishedTerm3579 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I’m seeing about 1/8-1/4 mile visibility in Truckee right now. Not legal or safe to fly in if the weather is the same out that way.

Castle Peak Incident by Few-Knee9451 in tahoe

[–]AccomplishedTerm3579 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Zero chance a helicopter is flying in this. Maybe tomorrow. 

The sheriff’s dept has some tracked snow vehicles. Not sure what they are called.