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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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folks, Andrew here, a quiet snowhead from the states, so excuse any formatting mishaps
assuming most folks have heard about the slides at alta last week, but just in case:
a heavy wet storm wed night/thurs closed the ski area and LCC road for two days, plus, and among the natural slides was one that rolled into the main parking lot between goldminers and peruvian lodges, burying some cars
not great video but (i believe it's from peruvian side):
https://www.tetongravity.com/video/news/natural-avalanche-sweeps-through-altas-parking-lot
i coudn't really tell from the video, but on tues i shared a lift with a young couple from new zealand who were touring n. american ski hills for three months in a camper. when i looked at my pics i took before the storm, I saw a camper parked on the side of the lot where the slide hit. hope whoever owned it moved it in time.
another slide in snowbird supposedly stacked up snow 8-9 feet high
alta declared interlodge conditions for an amazing 52 hours--that means no one can go outside at all, which is kinda hard to imagine--though i guess if you saw the slide from the windows in goldminers you were probably persuaded otherwise.
https://twitter.com/AltaSkiArea/status/1225464318751232000?s=20
one of the local tvs found a homeowner whose cabin on the hill got smacked around:
https://kutv.com/news/local/cabin-owner-digs-out-after-avalanche-damage
i was at alta until wed midday when i left to meet friends in park city. at the time i was cursing my luck leaving nirvana with a big storm en route. who knew.
goldminer's ain't cheap. so two days of no skiing? 
the place really needed fresh snow when i was there, but maybe not quite like that!
andrew
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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@BobinCH, I'm not expert, but I did a course on this in December, so I'll give it a shot. The block of symbols under the date at the top is the snow crystal type and indicated in the F column (I'd need to look them up though, I'll try and find a link).
I'm not sure how they're defining the blue 'ram resistance' as apposed to the grey area below – this (grey) is the hardness of each layer as indicated by the codes at the top F-fist, 4F-4 fingers, 1F-1 finger, P-pen, K-knife which is what you can easily push in at that level. If you dig a pit and cut a block, and then run something light like a paintbrush over the layers horizontally, they will reveal themselves quite spectacularly. The red line is the temperature.
So here you have about 30cm soft snow lying on a hard layer, then another 10cm of soft and more hard layers. There are three potential fracture points in those hard layers (right most column), which again you will see if you cut a block.
I'm translating off a German language chart which is similar but not identical, and have probably forgotten some stuff  but hopefully that's the gist of it, but happy to be corrected as I might learn something else 
You should be able to get these charts for all the monitoring stations in your area. Here, you get them from the same site as the avi report by digging through the menus a bit.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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@Scarlet, excellent. Thanks!
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This is the one Xavier de le Rue is referring to
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note - it seems my FB feed is clearly 2 weeks late - please see BobinCH's post above, and earlier - apologies! (but the story is now even more compelling!)
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