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Blue Lake 25/8/13 - Avalanche Pics 27-Aug-2013 At 11:07:18 AM Damien Gildea
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On 27/08/2013 bw wrote:
>Glide cracks?
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>http://www.fsavalanche.org/encyclopedia/glide.htm

Sort of, but in the case of Blue Lake the whole snow/ice sheet that you see cracked is probably sliding on the ground (tussock, rock, dirt) rather than on a snow slope beneath the slab.

It would be interesting to set up a webcam showing how the whole place melts out in the Sept-Oct period. Would give a good indication of the dynamics of the place. It's not really like most northern hemisphere places where we get our snow and ice knowledge from - there's no crevasses, no big mountain, no 10m dumps of powder, no temps below -15C. It's probably closer to Scotland more than anything.

Gravity is the same all over though, so when sh!t falls on you, you still get hurt, or if you fall in a hole, if you go down far enough, the wrong way, it doesn't really matter if it's a glacial crevasse or just a hole between the snow and rock.

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