Search Results for 'avalanche' | Bruce Tremper Photography

$We purposely triggered this avalanche by jumping on the flat part of the ridge above the tree. We are now looking at the fracture line to learn more about the culprit weak layer.$

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$A massive avalanche triggered by a snowboarder on the left side of the avalanche looking down. The avalanche, unfortunately, killed the snowboarder. For scale, you can see avalanche workers examining the fracture line on the right side of the photo. The fracture was 6-8 feet deep.$

$A massive avalanche triggered by a snowboarder. The avalanche, unfortunately, killed the snowboarder. For scale, you can see avalanche workers examining the fracture line on the right side of the photo. The fracture was 6-8 feet deep.$

$An avalanche purposely triggered by ski patrollers using explosives at Park City Mountain Resort in Utah. The fracture was about two hundred yards wide and 2-3 feet deep. This was a wet slab avalanche and the instability was caused by rapid and prolonged warming in spring.$

$Jason West walks along the fracture line of an avalanche incident in Silver Fork, 11-14-06 in which one person was completely buried in an avalanche they triggered and Jason dug out by his partners in time to save his life. Here he returned to the scene the following day to investigate the accident.$

$I was able to intentionally and easily trigger this huge avalanche in East Monitor along the Park City ridgeline, Utah. I was standing above where my wife is now and sanding on a 15 degree slope and hanging onto a tree. I jumped on the slope, which collapsed the very fragile layer of depth hoar and propagatated the fracture onto the steeper slope below me. My wife Susi came down to the tree after the avalanche occurred, where she watched me as I examined the fracture line of the avalanche. It is usually quite safe to examine fracture lines because all the energy has been released.$

$Logan, Utah avalanche forecaster, Toby Weed, ascends the path of a recent avalanche to examine the fracture line. Wellsville Mountains, Utah.$

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