Avalanche at Marmot Basin

This is a video that my sister and father took when they went on a trip to Jasper, Alberta, on March 25, 2007.

The avalanche patrollers were up in a helicopter, placing explosive devices on an out-of-bounds slope in an attempt to trigger avalanches and reduce the danger to the public. After a fresh dump of snow (about a foot) the night before and windy conditions, this slope was wind-loaded, causing a fairly high avalanche hazard. The explosives were dropped from the helicopter onto the slope with approximately 2-minute fuses. After about the first 30 seconds of the video, the first explosive of two goes off, but does not trigger any slides. Soon after, the second bomb goes off to the right of the first. After a short pause, a network of crack lines appear, and a huge avalanche occurs. Watch in the lower right-hand corner of the screen as the avalanche rides up the adjacent hill ("The Knob," closed at the time).

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[everetttylercraig]

hey do u know kyle parsloe>?

[Tyrannotitan]

No, why?

[krunchedup]

What ???? I waited one minute for THAT !!!!???????

The description is more exciting than the film. bahh !

[Tyrannotitan]

It would be more exciting for real, trust me. It looks like a wimpy thing on a video, but it would really be freaky.

[skitskatmeerkat1]

Cool

[bigtornado26]

In someplaces the avalanche patrol use howitzers to make controlled avalanches it's awesome.

[samyounk58]

my bro and my uncle plus my dad hiked to the top and they had a pretty nice run down

[samyounk58]

yeah I was there yesterday and it was fun u can even see my vid from there of my cousin Erik skiing but he is only 10 so it's nothing spectacular at all but the end is pretty funny when he didn't get enough speed for a jump

[TheMiketowle]

@skyblue2567 me and a buddy of mine climbed to to top wit my snowboard and his skis the day after a blizzard last year was sweet no one else was up there so everything was fresh

[TheMiketowle]

thats a controlled avalanche nothing dangerous about that

[theburtondominator]

that dynomite when i wa\s there the same thing happened

[abigmacsass]

a friend of mine got killed by an avalanche 3 days ago

[skyblue2567]

oh my friend went hiking up to the top and skiied down lol i h8 that danm 2 person old chairlift they have,, the ski teachers are the best in canada they say and thats true there awesome! :)

[JacoAndRudiBails]

intense i wanted to go to see the avalanche but i couldnt i like like 3 hours away but i love goin to marmot