olyclimber Posted July 13, 2012 Share Posted July 13, 2012 http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/07/13/12722446-5-mile-long-landslide-in-alaska-national-park-warming-eyed-as-possible-culprit?lite they're coming unglued with warming temps Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G-spotter Posted July 13, 2012 Share Posted July 13, 2012 4 missing, presumed dead in BC http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2012/07/13/bc-landslide-search-johnsons-landing.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob Posted July 13, 2012 Share Posted July 13, 2012 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob Posted July 13, 2012 Share Posted July 13, 2012 really cool presentation on the slide: http://www.for.gov.bc.ca/ftp/RNI/external/outgoing/Marten%20Geertsema/landslide%20papers/11%20June%202012%20Lituya%20Mountain%20rock%20avalanche.pdf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buckshot Posted July 13, 2012 Share Posted July 13, 2012 So much for wearing an avy beacon in that one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
burchey Posted July 13, 2012 Share Posted July 13, 2012 Nice .pdf file - I remember seeing a video of a semi-recent rock/ice slide on the Nisqually, couple weeks after I had been on it...rock ran down the mountain like some kind of scary river. It was about 1 millionth the size of this, can't imagine being anywhere nearby at the time of the slide. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigtree Posted July 14, 2012 Share Posted July 14, 2012 How interesting. I just finished reading a book called Coming Home by Alaskan author Lynn Schooler. He tried to circumnavigate Mt. Fairweather starting from Lituya Bay - the site of the worlds largest tsunami. Very good read. Lots of local historical information. No surprise the area remains so geologically active. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cascadesdj Posted July 14, 2012 Share Posted July 14, 2012 http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/07/13/12722446-5-mile-long-landslide-in-alaska-national-park-warming-eyed-as-possible-culprit?lite they're coming unglued with warming temps There's no global warming, just ask a republican. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
denalidave Posted July 14, 2012 Share Posted July 14, 2012 http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/07/13/12722446-5-mile-long-landslide-in-alaska-national-park-warming-eyed-as-possible-culprit?lite they're coming unglued with warming temps There's no global warming, just ask a republican. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
obwan Posted July 15, 2012 Share Posted July 15, 2012 4 missing, presumed dead in BC http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2012/07/13/bc-landslide-search-johnsons-landing.html What a bummer - to young to die, and very sad. God Bless. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don_Serl Posted July 15, 2012 Share Posted July 15, 2012 (edited) awesome slide off Lituya, but it'd be a stretch to blame global warming. let's see: Ice Valley, 1997, 5km x 1km (see page 180, The Waddington Guide): Hope Slide, Jan 1965 Huascaran, May 1970 Frank Slide, 1903: etc, etc... Edited July 15, 2012 by Don_Serl Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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