Left Gully looks FAT!!! (1.25.07)

[Affix Snow]

from www.tuckerman.org/photos/tucks/

http://www.tuckerman.org/photos/tucks/images/2007-01-25%20Left%20Gully%20with%20fracture%20at%20top.jpg
http://www.tuckerman.org/photos/tucks/images/2007-01-25%20Bowl%20from%20Hermit%20Lake%20viewpoint.jpg
http://www.tuckerman.org/photos/tucks/images/2007-01-25%20Hillmans,%20Dutchess,%20and%20Dodge's.jpg

[Jolly J]

Chute is looking pretty gnarly too.

[yuckster]

The words "attractive nuisance" spring to mind when you look at Left Gully in the context of current avy conditions.

[Sledhaulingmedic]

At least there's some snow filing in. I'm very concerned that there's snow piling on some very weak layers (check previous reports).

Maybe I'm asking for too much: A huge dump that causes full depth slides so we can start over. (The repeat huge dumps until the bowl's full:D )

[2plankerider]

Maybe I'm asking for too much: A huge dump


your MOM takes huge dumps.....:D

[Sledhaulingmedic]

your MOM takes huge dumps.....:D

But not in left gully:)

[P-HUG]

can you say Boney???

[yuckster]

At least there's some snow filing in. I'm very concerned that there's snow piling on some very weak layers (check previous reports).

Maybe I'm asking for too much: A huge dump that causes full depth slides so we can start over. (The repeat huge dumps until the bowl's full:D )


Question (I really don't know the answer..) don't we get big slides anyway every year, late enough in the season, even in nickle-and-dime patterns?

My impression from reading avy forecasts is that the only time Little Headwall gets filled in is when it's hit with a large avalanche from above.

This week has been really interesting for the light winds. The last time I remember that happening was in February 2005. Produced some soft slabs that were good fun to ski on (but risky.) But the pattern was different, then. I think we had one of the typical lows stalled off of Newfoundland. The light winds lasted much more days than they are this time around.

[RR]

Little headwall fills in just fine w/o any help from avalanche...I have crawled up it in 5 feet of fresh...that deep due to wind deposition, as there hadn't been 5 feet of snowfall.

[Sledhaulingmedic]

LHW is a long run-out for avi deposition. It just needs snow.

2Plank: Just noticed the ST comps in your avatar. Fond memories...

[davidhowland14]

BOSS!!

and if you look at the top of the gully, that is a cornice, imo, totally avalanche ready. looks really dangerous now.

[lacman]

At least there's some snow filing in. I'm very concerned that there's snow piling on some very weak layers (check previous reports).

Maybe I'm asking for too much: A huge dump that causes full depth slides so we can start over. (The repeat huge dumps until the bowl's full:D )

what would it take to ease your concerns? And is the concern that the gully might slide at ground level, giving someone a truly bad day? It seems that would be the biggest concern. LG is going to slide countless more times before the springtime anyways. Is there a pattern of weather that can either bury the weak layers so deep or underneath a layer so strong that we don't need to go to the ground and start over? Of all years, it would be a shame for that to happen right now.


and if you look at the top of the gully, that is a cornice, imo, totally avalanche ready. looks really dangerous now.

if you go to tuckerman.org, the title of the photo is "Left Gully with fracture at top."