Hatcher pass. Tom Murphy, then a hippy ski bum, now a nationally-renound avalanche expert. He plays with cannons.
Monday, September 15, 2014
What happens when you leave your car in a parking lot
Of a yet-unopened cross-country, telemark ski hostel in Alaska, circa 1975. Had a bit of a blizzard one night, this was what greeted us the next morning.
Hatcher pass. Tom Murphy, then a hippy ski bum, now a nationally-renound avalanche expert. He plays with cannons.
Hatcher pass. Tom Murphy, then a hippy ski bum, now a nationally-renound avalanche expert. He plays with cannons.
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Now there's a problem. I'd detach the truck's body from the rear axle, so it could could swing and redistribute its weight and momentum more effectively downhill --a telemark truck. Obviously, you extricated yourselves somehow and I congratulate you but confess myself baffled.
ReplyDeleteActually we took the front tires off, replaced them with snow machine front skis, hooked the drive shaft to a tank tread, and......
DeleteIn truth, the frame got twisted and the truck never drove again. The insurance company had a bit of a conundrum.
A telemark truck, that's good. What a conundrum.
ReplyDeleteLike the understatement of "bit of". And neither of you look dressed for it.
ReplyDeleteXO
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Sometimes the hood makes a decent toboggan.
ReplyDeleteI've heard from a snowbum of my acquaintance that those cannons are being reexamined after a bit of an accident on Loveland Pass this last winter. One of them exploded injuring two people.
ReplyDeleteA 24 hour blizzard in North Dakota once buried every car parked on downtown streets. I remember walking to work that day.
ReplyDeleteIt occurs to me that I neglected to mention that what the picture above shows is the result of an avalanche. The blizzard triggered a medium size one that swept through the parking lot, moving the truck 50 feet sideways.
ReplyDeleteA woman who has become a very dear friend homesteaded in the Yukon for a number of years. Nowadays, she lives in Grande Prairie, AB, still very far north, but in far less elemental circumstances. Here's a link to one of her Yukon Journal posts.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the link, I've bookmarked it. Those were the days, eh?
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