Orange Extreme Team explores Alps School of Gnar

The Austrian Alps have amazing lift access to the goods, from there you can either drop right in or take a short hike for fresh lines. Locals mostly stay on-piste, therefore there is a HUGE playground that is all yours! The splitboard access and touring possibilities are limitless. Off-piste sections are not controlled, risks include danger of avalanches and cliff terrain.

Stubaier Glacier backcountry access

Lifs taking you pretty close to where you want to go

Posted by Orange Extreme Big Mountain Snowboarding

Mt Evans Colorado 5-30-11

COLORADIKAL BBQ 2012

Coloradikal BBQ is one week from tomorow.  It has been snowing heavily today and more snow is on its way.  Avalanche conditions are still very high.  We will not be riding the entire wall, there is alot of snow barely hanging on.  I have been watching the face all season and have documented what has and has not avalanched. We will have a good selection of technical lines.  And it looks like it could be waist deep... 

We have STRIVEROOTS attending and will be playing live, check them out at www.striveroots.com

We are also bringing food, please let either Dave or I know if you are attending so we can kill enough cows. 

Thanks.

Tyler

303-396-8413

tydewitt@hotmail.com

Live Music

Strive Roots will be playing funky regge at the Coloradikal BBQ.

Check them out at www.striveroots.com

1/3/2012 AVALANCHE DANGER HIGH

Made it back up to the basin after 4 days of high winds 120 MPH reported in Frisco.  The first thing we saw was a big debris pile at the base of a chute.  The crown was 300 feet long and 6inches to 3 feet deep. You could see two different slab layers on the top of the crown.  The slide traveled the entire face about 700 feet.  The debris pile was made of big chunks of slab and rock hard.

We chose a safe ridge to hike up then set up a belle above a undisturbed chute.  We dug two pits along the convex roller just above the face.  the first 3" was new wind loaded snow that you could barely cut with a shovel.  Below that was another 3" shelf of similar snow quality.  The two layers were not bonded well.  Now 6 feet deep we found 2 feet of sugar snow on the ground. SKETCHY...

We cut a small piece of cornice (no bigger than 100 pounds) and sent it down the chute.  200 feet down the chute we herd the snow settle and the whole thing went for a ride all the way to the base 700 feet away. 100 foot crown 6inches to 2 feet deep.  Looking at the crown you could see the same layers we saw in our pit analysis and could see where they all failed.

2 CHUTES DOWN MANY MORE NEED TO GO.......

I will be back up this weekend Jan. 7 and 8 to start work on the rest of the area. We have 2 confirmed snowmobiles going and could use more help either snowmobiles or man power.  Come up.......