Has avalanche happened in Aussie?
Not sure I give this silly Question as above… 
I always thought avalanche occur on steep of mountain as I don’t think our mountain have this… I may be wrong? anyone correct me?
Since I checked photo’s in “The show off photo thread” https://www.boardworld.com.au/forums/viewthread/5494/
and I was surprised see Spaz’s photo “Golf Course Bowl, 40’ drop, avalanched behind me. 2009”
Spaz - Can you explain bit more what happened, if it did avalanched?
In this topic something we can learn snow history in Aussie…
Not a stupid question at all, I have never heard of any happening myself so am interested!
Not a stupid question at all. They are few and far between!
Spaz was filming out the back of Thredbo with some mates a small avi started.
Hoping we don’t have to wait a month for Spaz to post again to tell you his story
He happened to email me the link just the other day so i have it on hand.
Yep, seen plenty at Hotham, generally not huge like OS, but enough to really spoil your day if you get caught.
Not a stupid question at all. They are few and far between!
Spaz was filming out the back of Thredbo with some mates a small avi started.
Hoping we don’t have to wait a month for Spaz to post again to tell you his story
He happened to email me the link just the other day so i have it on hand.
Thanks…
A guy died in an avalanche in the Australian backcountry a couple of years ago.
Link here.
It can happen for sure. I’d guess almost every situation in Australia would involve a cornice dropping off a ridge.
I was involved in an avalanche at Treble Cone (New Zealand) in 2004.
There is plenty of back country steep enough for avi’s.
Like Blue Lake,Kosci cornice often breaks away.
Look at right of this photo there is evidence of a decent avi. KOSCI CORNICE - I’m bottom left in shot.
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Some b/c images.
Weather creates conditions right for avi on small scale in resorts. The one in my vid would be close to the biggest in an Australian resort.
Here are some photo’s of it. Could have easily killed.
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looking for the other photos…
^ Quite a big chuck of snow, reckon enough to crush your own body under…
Picture of BC now I can see steep, thanks for showing.
Rider, thanks for link. Were you managed escape from Treble Cone’s avalanche?
The girl in photo rode one those slabs half way down before slipping off the front of it. The whole thing went over her (which is why the video is all over the place-I was trying to get out of my bindings and watch where she was going to be buried). That last photo was taken as pieces of it continued to fall. You can see my line going off the right from under the pile up. I landed about where the left edge of photo. You can’t really hear it in the vid but the whole thing creeks as I ride over it.
A guy died in an avalanche in the Australian backcountry a couple of years ago.
Link here.
It can happen for sure. I’d guess almost every situation in Australia would involve a cornice dropping off a ridge.
I was involved in an avalanche at Treble Cone (New Zealand) in 2004.
Just readin that article reminded me of a guy I used to work with (Tyrone Monkman), that died the previous year to those in the article, he also hit a tree over at Blue Cow!!!!!
They do happen as others have said. Often the in resort ones aren’t anything major though. I recall one in the last couple of years at blue cow where the little cornice that forms between side saddle and the summit quad slipped. Obviously tiny but did happen. When I was on a bc guided tour from falls they were saying Mt Feathertop has prob the most in Aus. Not sure if that’s true of not.
Rider, thanks for link. Were you managed escape from Treble Cone’s avalanche?
No worries mate.
I escaped and lived to tell the tale. This was back in the day when I was very uneducated about the backcountry and the thought of an avalanche didn’t cross my mind. It was because of this accident that I went on to do avalanche training and get certified. I was lucky to escape injury free although my brand new snowboard and bindings (brand new Custom X and first ever Burton bindings with the “capstrap”) got buried somewhere on the mountain, never to be found again.
A couple of days after this incident there was a huge inbounds avalanche at Treble Cone. There was a lot of snow that season and the conditions were prime for an avalanche - I wish I recognised the warning signs back then. I very well could have died that day.
In Threders they do Avi training on the Bluff. Other places that are regularly forced to avalanch by patrol are; Micheals Mistakes, Ego Ally, (a fewspots in..)Golf Course Bowl. All cornices.
i wanted to do he avi course they run at Kirkwood in Tahoe but they had a 10 day break over christmas etc. and those 10 days were the only days i was in Tahoe. Was spewing,