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Irish Avalanche Risk

  • 15-01-2015 11:22am
    #1
    NathanKingerlee
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    Seven separate snow and boulder avalanches as we descended off the MacGillycuddy Reeks yesterday; as the wet snow sloughed down the cliffs and took debris with it. Two would have been fatal, the rest causing injury.

    It can be easy to discount snow risk in the Irish mountains. Be careful if you're up there...


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  • #2
    MysticalRain
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    Where on the Reeks this was happening?


  • #3
    a148pro
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    Can you provide more detail on this, snow depth, steepness of slope, size of avalanches and why they would have been fatal? Were you skiing??


  • #4
    NathanKingerlee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 304 ✭✭NathanKingerlee


    Sure. They were sloughing off the steep ground and overhead cliffs as you would proceed through 'The Levels' heading for O Shea's Gully, both on the Carrauntoohil side and the Hag's Tooth Ridge side.

    Most of them were just enough to knock you off your feet and potentially incapacitate you, especially on the steep ground exposed ground. As you know yourself being incapacitated in a low temperature and wet snow doesn't give you much time to sort things out.

    The two potentially fatal avalanches I mentioned weren't due to tonnes of snow falling; rather the weight of the slipping snow dislodged and carried large'ish boulders with it.


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