Avalanche

[GlennM]

Recently,  an avalanche called the Castle Peak avalanche ai California, USA's
Lake Tahoe area took the lives of nine people. Four were guides. What is reported in the news is that even though the slope where the victims were struck was 25 degrees, and considered too shallow for an avalanche, the slope steepend by 10 degrees more, higher up. That is where the release happened. A survivor who has chosen to relate the experiece said the warning came with a human shout, not an earthly rumble. It moved fast and was unrelenting. Finally, when trying to dig vicrims out, mainly by hand, the comment was that the snow was packed like cement, not like powder.

Something to ponder.

[sarapuk]

Recently,  an avalanche called the Castle Peak avalanche ai California, USA's
Lake Tahoe area took the lives of nine people. Four were guides. What is reported in the news is that even though the slope where the victims were struck was 25 degrees, and considered too shallow for an avalanche, the slope steepend by 10 degrees more, higher up. That is where the release happened. A survivor who has chosen to relate the experiece said the warning came with a human shout, not an earthly rumble. It moved fast and was unrelenting. Finally, when trying to dig vicrims out, mainly by hand, the comment was that the snow was packed like cement, not like powder.

Something to ponder.

According to reports, the mountain is at about 8000 feet and very steep in places, i.e., 30 degrees near where the accident happened. And the snow can be very deep. Nothing like the hill that the Dyatlov group were on.

[GlennM]

.and yet, we see an image of a ruined tent, broken support pole, knifed canvas and different textures of snow taken in the aftermath. I like weather driven shifted snow better than guns, arrows, claws and lights in the sky.

[sarapuk]

.and yet, we see an image of a ruined tent, broken support pole, knifed canvas and different textures of snow taken in the aftermath. I like weather driven shifted snow better than guns, arrows, claws and lights in the sky.

I'm open to all possibilities. But obviously, some things are just unlikely due to the circumstances of the whole incident. Because it wasn't just about what happened at the tent site, it was what happened on the slope in the forest and at the ravine. Yes, we see a ruined tent weeks after the event that put it that way. We see the snow weeks after the event, so we don't know the exact state of the snow at the time of the event. We don't know if the snow or weather conditions resulted in the damage to the tent and the fleeing of the group from the tent. But it's highly unlikely that snow damaged the tent and caused the group to rip open their tent and flee, not properly dressed for those conditions.