SciShow you’ve overlooked the worst kind. During the spring the sun melts snow that water seeps down thru the snow pack and runs down the hill melting the snow pack from the ground up. Once the pack isn’t supported the whole volume of snow collapses to the ground and due to the water that’s already flowing down it turns the snow into slush which starts its violent and deadly path down the hill called a “wet slide” they can travel much faster and with much more momentum. Snapping adult trees clean off at the ground. Pushing city busses hundreds of feet of roads. And you can imaging what it would do to a skier or you passenger car. As someone that spent a good portion of my 30’ in the wasach front (Utah) wet slides are no joke as they usually move the fastest and farthest. Also they start silently as where a slab avalanche usually creates a loud audible “boom” as it is triggered. Morel- take avalanche safty classes before venturing into the back country regardless of your ability to ski or snowboard.
I was climbing K2 last winter and triggered an avalanche from flexing too hard. Eleven were killed, but I dug myself out and continued to the summit... shirtless.
Cartoon avalanches omg. When I was 7 or 8 I was walking on fresh snow on a mountain and sunk into it. I couldn't get myself out and was afraid to yell for help and cause an avalanche and bury myself deeper. Glad my dad found me lol
Perhaps a loud noise has starting an avalanche happened more often in the past where mountains weren't skied on or climbed much, and maybe they started _not from the noise itself but from animals startled by it_ knocking around the snow, vegetation, or rocks.
When you die before air deprivation has time to really kick in, yeah, crushing is the problem. And cartoons were plenty comfortable showing us people left flat after an accident, so I guess the same immortality just kicked in there
It's a pretty inhumane way to die in my opinion (you would have to be a heartless monster to just stand there and watch/let someone suffocate to death)
I live in Alaska and have actually set off a fairly large avalanche while sighting in a 12 ga shotgun. Fortunately I wasn't caught in it, but it was a bit scary for a couple of minutes. The avalanche started about 1500 feet up on the mountainside in front of me, and stopped about 100 yards away.
Heavy snow, a rise in temperatures or strong winds are ideal for avalanches. A frequent visitor to Chamonix for 20 years. Always wear an ARVA tracker and keep an eye on each other always. 👍
How about like in Mulan? Do you think that would be plausible? The firework hit high up in the mountain, and the avalanche kept going down to where they were. They were able to survive on the horse that was almost outrunning the snow. And the others hid behind a big rock.
I was also expecting you to speak about avalanche critical angles. The first is 25°, below that it is extremely rare for an avalanche to be caused because friction is always greater that the gravitationnal force pushing on the snow. The second is 60°, above it loose snow doesn't hold and falls by itself, so there can't be avalanche because there can't be unstable slab of snow. Most human triggered avalanche appear between 35° and 45. (no i'm not talking about abv degree, hehe)
Why does everyone get so defensive about measurements. I know it's kinda annoying having somthing said in the units you don't primarily use but don't turn it into an America vs all debate.
As long as they INCLUDE both I don't care which one is primary or first. Go ahead and put the temperature in big letters on top in Celsius, as long as the Fahrenheit is there too. (shrug)
Thanks for covering this topic. As an avid splitboarder I know the importance of avalanche awareness. I would add onto your closing statements: If you don't know if you should be worried about an avalanche, don't go on that mountain. Also, if you are caught in an avalanche you should YELL! It's the best way for someone to look towards you so they can find you quicker. The longer you stay buried, the less your chance of survival. Ride safe and shred hard!
The loudest sounds I've ever heard were sonic booms, two caused by shuttle landings and one caused by a chemical plant exploding in Texas City. They were all enough to shake the houses in which I found myself, more, i think, than a skier landing on the roof, but in all cases my chest felt fine.
They also use rocket launchers to set off small avalanches in order to prevent big ones. And they use loud sirenes as a warning, so sound is really unlikely ti trigger them.
you know when a skier does one of those runs that starts with them jumping off a helicopter onto the top of a mountain? (because no ski lifts) does it ever happen where the initial impact of their landing immediately sets off an avalanche?
I've been around explosions before and it dose feel like being hit by a wall but it's never hit with the force of an adult jumping on me so I guess that checks out?
USS Steven Anchundia Oh! You meant that live action is fake too! You're not wrong, although they're different degrees of fake, and even more different depending on the level of CGI.
@@yosoyysoyyo their one problem I have with live action is that their movie and show that are animated and are good but they live action it and it add nothing to experience and it may take take away form it in the worst case their money of course but people think live action is better when it not true a anime Anohana and the movie inside out had me crying more than aything I seen in live action
Another common term in avie science is faceted snow. Snow crystals that become sugarlike in composition and bond poorly with other layers of snow. Snow layers can reform into and out of faceted snow depending on weather conditions. Also you will hear “depth hoar”.
Hard for my mind to wrap around how dangerous they are, they don't look dangerous from watching on a screen BUT man, they will chew you up and spit your ass out!! I skied the last 35 years and thankfully I have NOT seen an avalanche! I want to do some high altitude climbing but now I'm worried about avalanches lol! Thanks for vid!
Avalanches are literally my worst fear. It's why I'm so afraid to get into back country skiing. Even with a beacon, they normally find you about 10-15 minutes after you're dead. And that's after being stuck in the snow, unable to move, hardly able to breath for 15 minutes before you pass out. It would be a slow shitty way to die. The good new is that most avalanche fatalities come from trauma caused by debris caught in the snow with you.
I imagine directed low frequency sound waves, intersecting sound waves or harmonics may over time trigger an avalanche. An air driven motor with an off center weight mounted to the shaft, anchored to the ground to induce ground resonance might work. Just pondering.
Probably of an avalanche varies vastly based on wind, temperature, quality of existing snow, and terrain features. Some slopes you can ski safely without any problems in the morning, but would certainly avalanche in the afternoon heat
@@baruchspinoza7404 No, that means that after 3 years of that routine, the possibility of fatality tips past 50%. So it's the point where its a tad more likely to have died than to have lived. But it never reaches 100% so it's never a definite possibility.
Mariano Ntrougkas I think it was pointing out that even at 1/100, if you ski a lot then sooner or later it will get you. It was from a backcountry skills book by Bruce Tremper.
@@baruchspinoza7404 ya sure but if you want to say that a 90 percent chance of that happening if you ski on dangerous slopes is enough then you will need to ski 30 days a year for a little over 7 years. In three years there will be a 60 percent chance of dying.
I’m a ski patroller, the area that I work in has avalanches. I have to say that that the description of a slab avalanches was incorrect. It is not a denser layer on a loser layer. It is the lack of bonding between the layers. The lack of cohesion that causes propagation. This propagation then leads to larger avalanches. I really do enjoy the content you put out but I had to point out incorrect information. If you would like more SciShow then contact me.
As the avalanche picks up speed the snow will heat up from friction, if you're at the bottom of the mountain you would only receive a gentle and warm shower.
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Actually gunshots can do it too, but are unlikely to do so. Still, a gun can rupture your eardrums and break glass in vicinity. A big cannon can smash glass over a wide area, kill people and even shake tanks just from the muzzle blast! DB translate to pressure and since it's logarithmic, 300 DB would be pretty much the end of it all... Thus, the Dovakin wouldn't even be that loud regarding numbers...
Idling boat engines outside vibrate my flat,whereas a fighter jet practicing can be deafening as it goes over but produces no vibration. I guess its type of noise not volume.
(1:45) "obliterate thick cement walls" Pro tip: Don't build walls using "cement" - use concrete, or bricks & mortar, or stones (with or without mortar). Cement is used to make concrete and mortar, but would be a terrible choice on its own.
@@evilsharkey8954 I don't know anything about Minecraft, but I'm happy to accept that. Believe it or not, in this era of breakneck scientific development, it's still the best thing there is to deal with fluid spills on racetracks.
Landslides are scarier. They can be hellish loud and smash even fortified structures like a fist a house of cards.... I've once experienced the beginning of one and it was really unexpected. I wondered why it was so quiet; not even a bird to hear. I paused to listen, but what I've heard was something very different. It was very quiet, but a deep sound akin to a ship bending when catching wind. Then I heard sand rustling on stone and individual pebbles rolling and bouncing. At that time I realised it: freezing and thawing started to move a huge part of the rock way above me... The worst part: I had still far too much distance to cover as that I would have been able to run. I thus marched at my best speed and for an hour I saw rocks rolling down and could only hope that it wouldn't be more...
And yet, before the era of Ski Patrol blowing dynamite charges to trigger tiny avalanches, people setting off avalanches with gunshots and yells were fairly common and in some places of the world, still occur naturally. It's not a thing really any more, but that's because of Ski Patrol and similar organizations monitoring mountains and avalanche conditions and preventing the dangerous ones from building up.
Torrey Jones they only do that in places people ski. There are a lot of mountains around the world that only have natural avalanches, including some in the U.S.
@@evilsharkey8954 Well, it's not ONLY where people ski, but yes, that was what I was trying to get at. The Ski Patrol I used to hang out with, I was ski school, were responsible for quite a few mountains in the area beyond those that were used for skiing, in large part because they were used by other winter activities and some locations because of danger to housing in the area. There are of course lots of locations in the Rockies and Appalachians that are not covered by the Patrol at all, and some that are only monitored, but only rarely get safety avalanches triggered for some reason. The point I was trying to make is that Yes, avalanches DO go off from people being too loud in some places, especially with things like shotguns and rifles. It is a known and legitimate danger that Ski Patrol and other such organizations world wide are intimately familiar with, and this video made it seem like it was not a thing that ever happened, when it IS a thing, just not in places where such organizations maintain avalanche-safe conditions.
Edouard Dubois yeah, that part was accurate. People don't really ride on top of avalanches, though, and if you're buried even a few inches, you can't move enough to break free.
Vassilinia Wind blown snow particles compact together forming a tightly knit skin over the surface of weaker snow. A trap releasing tons of snow once triggered when your far from the edge of it. Warmer snow from a warm front passing over giving a heavy dump on top of icy snow cold snow. Yikes.
Except they do actually use guns to cause avalanches... recoiless rifles to be exact... If you don't know what that is, it's basically a mobile tank cannon that's open on both ends.
heh heh... maybe I'll go get me some surface hoar tonight and see how much pressure it takes to cause an avalanche (and I have no idea what that even means)
Why not also mention avalanches that don't involve snow, but rocks on the side on a hill or mountain? Are these far less common? (And can there be one that involves a combination of both rocks and snow? Also, sand avalanches.
All I got from that video is that the stripe in Michael's hair is back. That kinda bugged me when it was gone, he didn't look right. Am I the only person who noticed that?
@@jamesmnguyen No. Everyone in Europe uses kilograms all the time to quantify weight. So it's much easier to compare weights between each other using kilograms.
Why explain how two layers form in the loose avalanch?, where it is kinda obvious how it forms. and not explain how the two layers form to create the slabs?? which completly does not make sense to me as to how two layers can form with the looser one on THE BOTTOM
A sonic boom isnt enough to trigger an avalanche? Sonic booms are strong enough to knock people off their feet, thats kind of crazy that they cant trigger some loose snow.
Michael Jorfi they're shockwaves in air, so they hit suddenly instead of gradually like wind gusts, but at the end of the day, they're just a sudden push of fast air, still much less force than the weight of a human.
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What if the loud sound scared an animal, would a mountaineering creature be able to trigger one of the avalanches?
I'd like to know why someone can't just dig themselves out of an avalanche.. I know you can't. but why?
@@celinak5062 use ur imagination
SkiShow, heh.
SciShow you’ve overlooked the worst kind. During the spring the sun melts snow that water seeps down thru the snow pack and runs down the hill melting the snow pack from the ground up. Once the pack isn’t supported the whole volume of snow collapses to the ground and due to the water that’s already flowing down it turns the snow into slush which starts its violent and deadly path down the hill called a “wet slide” they can travel much faster and with much more momentum. Snapping adult trees clean off at the ground. Pushing city busses hundreds of feet of roads. And you can imaging what it would do to a skier or you passenger car. As someone that spent a good portion of my 30’ in the wasach front (Utah) wet slides are no joke as they usually move the fastest and farthest. Also they start silently as where a slab avalanche usually creates a loud audible “boom” as it is triggered.
Morel- take avalanche safty classes before venturing into the back country regardless of your ability to ski or snowboard.
Cartoons - *_Endless possibilities_*
Real life - *_Endless limitations_*
Real life too - Endlessly unpredictable
@@r4tl_ 😱
Live action dose not equal better
No - Real Life: Limited Limitations XD
Real life : a slinki on an escalator but the escalator is on fire
I was climbing K2 last winter and triggered an avalanche from flexing too hard. Eleven were killed, but I dug myself out and continued to the summit... shirtless.
GODDAMN It MUSCLE HANK!!!
Weird flex, but okay.
What, your flex make sound?
You're an accessory to eleven deaths. The authorities will charge you with eleven counts of third-degree murder.
J.J. Shank It's not my fault they were too weak to dig themselves out.
Cartoon avalanches omg. When I was 7 or 8 I was walking on fresh snow on a mountain and sunk into it. I couldn't get myself out and was afraid to yell for help and cause an avalanche and bury myself deeper. Glad my dad found me lol
Pics of dad?
Aw that's adorably cute and sad at the same time. Lol
So misinformation can be dangerous!
Perhaps a loud noise has starting an avalanche happened more often in the past where mountains weren't skied on or climbed much, and maybe they started _not from the noise itself but from animals startled by it_ knocking around the snow, vegetation, or rocks.
In cartoons they actually survive
Or the children will be crying forever, haha
It would be very short a story if they didnt
*_I guess suffocation isn't family friendly content_*
generally it's more likely that it would be crushing not suffocation.
When you die before air deprivation has time to really kick in, yeah, crushing is the problem. And cartoons were plenty comfortable showing us people left flat after an accident, so I guess the same immortality just kicked in there
The vast majority of avalanche deaths are due to suffocation, about 75%. You have about a 90% chance of surviving if dug out in under 15 mins
It's a pretty inhumane way to die in my opinion (you would have to be a heartless monster to just stand there and watch/let someone suffocate to death)
I live in Alaska and have actually set off a fairly large avalanche while sighting in a 12 ga shotgun. Fortunately I wasn't caught in it, but it was a bit scary for a couple of minutes. The avalanche started about 1500 feet up on the mountainside in front of me, and stopped about 100 yards away.
Scream down the mountain? So an AAAAAAAAAAAvalanche?
White powder avalance, sounds like a drug deal gone wrong
Or a drug deal gone very right.
@@massimookissed1023 😂😂😂
I’m thinking a Colorado weed strain.
Or when the business is booming.
Heavy snow, a rise in temperatures or strong winds are ideal for avalanches.
A frequent visitor to Chamonix for 20 years.
Always wear an ARVA tracker and keep an eye on each other always. 👍
How about like in Mulan? Do you think that would be plausible? The firework hit high up in the mountain, and the avalanche kept going down to where they were. They were able to survive on the horse that was almost outrunning the snow. And the others hid behind a big rock.
2:22 is not a slab avalanche. that's a glacier. MUCH slower moving. Meters per year, as opposed to meters per second.
when you walking in a winter wonderland
*_AVALANCHE INTENSIFIES_*
I wish you guys would continue the 'Great Minds' series
I love the analogy you used for why sounds are unlikely to start something.
Ah, another great video of dispelling common myths. Good job SciShow!
I was also expecting you to speak about avalanche critical angles.
The first is 25°, below that it is extremely rare for an avalanche to be caused because friction is always greater that the gravitationnal force pushing on the snow.
The second is 60°, above it loose snow doesn't hold and falls by itself, so there can't be avalanche because there can't be unstable slab of snow.
Most human triggered avalanche appear between 35° and 45.
(no i'm not talking about abv degree, hehe)
Why does everyone get so defensive about measurements. I know it's kinda annoying having somthing said in the units you don't primarily use but don't turn it into an America vs all debate.
As long as they INCLUDE both I don't care which one is primary or first. Go ahead and put the temperature in big letters on top in Celsius, as long as the Fahrenheit is there too. (shrug)
Thanks for the great info on avalanches!
1:17 WOAH WOAH WOACH YOU CANNOT SAY THAT HERE
3:48 The loudest sound, easy. Explosions. How much pressure? More thsn enough to break my bones.
I mean, I've felt some bass that made my entire body tremble.
I’ve been called a surface hoar by a loose top.
This sounds like I'm being challenged, challenge accepted, I'm going to climb up a mountain and scream at the snow until something happens.
Thanks for covering this topic. As an avid splitboarder I know the importance of avalanche awareness. I would add onto your closing statements: If you don't know if you should be worried about an avalanche, don't go on that mountain. Also, if you are caught in an avalanche you should YELL! It's the best way for someone to look towards you so they can find you quicker. The longer you stay buried, the less your chance of survival.
Ride safe and shred hard!
The loudest sounds I've ever heard were sonic booms, two caused by shuttle landings and one caused by a chemical plant exploding in Texas City. They were all enough to shake the houses in which I found myself, more, i think, than a skier landing on the roof, but in all cases my chest felt fine.
A great channel for learning more about avalanches is “The Avalanche Guys” created by National Forest Service Rangers our of Bozeman...Montana.
They also use rocket launchers to set off small avalanches in order to prevent big ones. And they use loud sirenes as a warning, so sound is really unlikely ti trigger them.
you know when a skier does one of those runs that starts with them jumping off a helicopter onto the top of a mountain? (because no ski lifts)
does it ever happen where the initial impact of their landing immediately sets off an avalanche?
I've been around explosions before and it dose feel like being hit by a wall but it's never hit with the force of an adult jumping on me so I guess that checks out?
During World War 2, in Italy, the Allies used their artillerie to trigger avalanches over key German positions, with great results.
"Because cartoons are fake."
*_Video ends_*
So live action
USS Steven Anchundia Pardon?
@@yosoyysoyyo because live action is all acting
USS Steven Anchundia Oh! You meant that live action is fake too! You're not wrong, although they're different degrees of fake, and even more different depending on the level of CGI.
@@yosoyysoyyo their one problem I have with live action is that their movie and show that are animated and are good but they live action it and it add nothing to experience and it may take take away form it in the worst case their money of course but people think live action is better when it not true a anime Anohana and the movie inside out had me crying more than aything I seen in live action
Another common term in avie science is faceted snow. Snow crystals that become sugarlike in composition and bond poorly with other layers of snow. Snow layers can reform into and out of faceted snow depending on weather conditions. Also you will hear “depth hoar”.
There's a great avalanche course here in Missoula too, well worth the knowledge
Hard for my mind to wrap around how dangerous they are, they don't look dangerous from watching on a screen BUT man, they will chew you up and spit your ass out!! I skied the last 35 years and thankfully I have NOT seen an avalanche! I want to do some high altitude climbing but now I'm worried about avalanches lol! Thanks for vid!
Suprised he didn’t mention the inflatable vest
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Avalanches are literally my worst fear. It's why I'm so afraid to get into back country skiing. Even with a beacon, they normally find you about 10-15 minutes after you're dead. And that's after being stuck in the snow, unable to move, hardly able to breath for 15 minutes before you pass out. It would be a slow shitty way to die.
The good new is that most avalanche fatalities come from trauma caused by debris caught in the snow with you.
I imagine directed low frequency sound waves, intersecting sound waves or harmonics may over time trigger an avalanche. An air driven motor with an off center weight mounted to the shaft, anchored to the ground to induce ground resonance might work. Just pondering.
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Love the video. Love the haircut. ;)
The surface hoar has a slick layer between the loose layer
Always a pleasure listening to your show bruh. Thanks✌️
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Huh. So one _could_ have a _powder_ avalanche on _top_ of a _slab_ avalanche.
I love that you're consistently using the metric system now. Makes it so much easier to watch for non-US viewers.
ikr that online unit conversion tool is sooo difficult amirite?
I'd like to see the metrics (ha! no pun intended) on viewership from SciShow. My guess would still have more American viewers than "the field."
IDK why they dont just say both. Like that extra 1.42 seconds would kill them.
There are two types of nations - those who use the metric system, and those who have put men on the moon.
People… Americans… you should have learned how to use the metric system decades ago, this should not be a burden on you
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What is the possibility of fatality?
Manuel Cebrero
I read 1/100 when crossing a dangerous slope. Yet if you ski 30 days a year in avalanche terrain then that means once in 3 years. 😳
Probably of an avalanche varies vastly based on wind, temperature, quality of existing snow, and terrain features. Some slopes you can ski safely without any problems in the morning, but would certainly avalanche in the afternoon heat
@@baruchspinoza7404 No, that means that after 3 years of that routine, the possibility of fatality tips past 50%. So it's the point where its a tad more likely to have died than to have lived. But it never reaches 100% so it's never a definite possibility.
Mariano Ntrougkas
I think it was pointing out that even at 1/100, if you ski a lot then sooner or later it will get you. It was from a backcountry skills book by Bruce Tremper.
@@baruchspinoza7404 ya sure but if you want to say that a 90 percent chance of that happening if you ski on dangerous slopes is enough then you will need to ski 30 days a year for a little over 7 years. In three years there will be a 60 percent chance of dying.
What if there was a dense layer on a loose layer on a dense layer?
You should have mentioned how they use recoilless rifles to intentionally cause avalanches. It's awesome!
I’m a ski patroller, the area that I work in has avalanches. I have to say that that the description of a slab avalanches was incorrect. It is not a denser layer on a loser layer. It is the lack of bonding between the layers. The lack of cohesion that causes propagation. This propagation then leads to larger avalanches. I really do enjoy the content you put out but I had to point out incorrect information. If you would like more SciShow then contact me.
True. I was just trying to point out the fact that it is not just one thing that causes avalanches. A lot of physics is involved
Surface hoar? That's the name the avalanche experts went with eh?
Street walker was already taken.
As the avalanche picks up speed the snow will heat up from friction, if you're at the bottom of the mountain you would only receive a gentle and warm shower.
mmmm golden shower
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Dovahkiin could trigger an avalanche with his voice.
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Actually gunshots can do it too, but are unlikely to do so. Still, a gun can rupture your eardrums and break glass in vicinity. A big cannon can smash glass over a wide area, kill people and even shake tanks just from the muzzle blast! DB translate to pressure and since it's logarithmic, 300 DB would be pretty much the end of it all... Thus, the Dovakin wouldn't even be that loud regarding numbers...
edi that’s not how the Fus Ro dah works. It involves magic that pushes things, not the actual volume itself.
Idling boat engines outside vibrate my flat,whereas a fighter jet practicing can be deafening as it goes over but produces no vibration. I guess its type of noise not volume.
(1:45) "obliterate thick cement walls"
Pro tip: Don't build walls using "cement" - use concrete, or bricks & mortar, or stones (with or without mortar).
Cement is used to make concrete and mortar, but would be a terrible choice on its own.
Ian Macfarlane hey, it can stop lava in Minecraft!
@@evilsharkey8954 I don't know anything about Minecraft, but I'm happy to accept that.
Believe it or not, in this era of breakneck scientific development, it's still the best thing there is to deal with fluid spills on racetracks.
I'm just joking! Minecraft isn't exactly known for realism. Everything is blocks, and you can collect lava in iron buckets.
@@evilsharkey8954 I got that you were joking - I'm not a gamer, but I'm sure I've seen Minecraft - low res blocky graphics?
Landslides are scarier. They can be hellish loud and smash even fortified structures like a fist a house of cards.... I've once experienced the beginning of one and it was really unexpected. I wondered why it was so quiet; not even a bird to hear. I paused to listen, but what I've heard was something very different. It was very quiet, but a deep sound akin to a ship bending when catching wind. Then I heard sand rustling on stone and individual pebbles rolling and bouncing. At that time I realised it: freezing and thawing started to move a huge part of the rock way above me... The worst part: I had still far too much distance to cover as that I would have been able to run. I thus marched at my best speed and for an hour I saw rocks rolling down and could only hope that it wouldn't be more...
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I bought new powder Skis yesterday. very helpful video (Y)
Great vid
Cartoons give people Outlandish Expectations of Dying in a Snowy Wasteland
Austrian elementary school: on kids time for some snow science
What about the sound of thunder that rumbles the ground
Good thing you spelled that.
And yet, before the era of Ski Patrol blowing dynamite charges to trigger tiny avalanches, people setting off avalanches with gunshots and yells were fairly common and in some places of the world, still occur naturally. It's not a thing really any more, but that's because of Ski Patrol and similar organizations monitoring mountains and avalanche conditions and preventing the dangerous ones from building up.
Torrey Jones they only do that in places people ski. There are a lot of mountains around the world that only have natural avalanches, including some in the U.S.
@@evilsharkey8954 Well, it's not ONLY where people ski, but yes, that was what I was trying to get at. The Ski Patrol I used to hang out with, I was ski school, were responsible for quite a few mountains in the area beyond those that were used for skiing, in large part because they were used by other winter activities and some locations because of danger to housing in the area. There are of course lots of locations in the Rockies and Appalachians that are not covered by the Patrol at all, and some that are only monitored, but only rarely get safety avalanches triggered for some reason.
The point I was trying to make is that Yes, avalanches DO go off from people being too loud in some places, especially with things like shotguns and rifles. It is a known and legitimate danger that Ski Patrol and other such organizations world wide are intimately familiar with, and this video made it seem like it was not a thing that ever happened, when it IS a thing, just not in places where such organizations maintain avalanche-safe conditions.
So all the you would need to prevent an avalanche is to increase the friction between the top and bottom layer?
There are a few resorts that use artillery to trigger avalanches.
Dude... did you not watch Mulan?
Wasn’t that avalanche triggered by an exploding missile? That’s a lot of pressure.
Edouard Dubois yeah, that part was accurate. People don't really ride on top of avalanches, though, and if you're buried even a few inches, you can't move enough to break free.
But how does the dense snow end up on top for slab avalanches? 😕
Vassilinia
Wind blown snow particles compact together forming a tightly knit skin over the surface of weaker snow. A trap releasing tons of snow once triggered when your far from the edge of it.
Warmer snow from a warm front passing over giving a heavy dump on top of icy snow cold snow. Yikes.
@@baruchspinoza7404 Yep. I came to put the same two. ❄❄
playgroundchooser
Ignorance is bliss.
So much more fun when you don’t have a clue. Lol.
Typically when it thaws from the top (e.g. light rain, warm wind), then gets cold and freezes over again.
In this video, you show a picture of a Sonic Boom as an airplane passes through it. Does the pilot see the sound barrier as it breaks?
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How could the survivors of that airplane crash in the Andes have survived that avalanche ?
The only cartoon avalanche I can think of is from Mulan, where she used an explosive charge to trigger it and it killed dozens of men.
Elliott Collins pretty sure it was hundreds of men getting snowed to death.
But spongebob and patrick really were caught in an avalanche..
Video was worth watching to hear him say "surface hoar" if nothing else.
Try to swim! You might get lucky and your head might be above the snow. But don't expect you can get out you will be basically in concrete
Wait thats not how avalanches work in cartoons. They trap you in houses and then you have to eat the nails and floorboards to survive
Dat transition tho 👍
Nice! So I can play Avanlancha by Hombres G while on top of a sketchy mountain and nothing will happen. Sweet!
Except they do actually use guns to cause avalanches... recoiless rifles to be exact...
If you don't know what that is, it's basically a mobile tank cannon that's open on both ends.
Should I move to Montana?
what about the type of avalanche where a huge ball of snow rolls towards you and keeps getting bigger? you skipped that entirely :D :P
surface hoar 😏
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heh heh... maybe I'll go get me some surface hoar tonight and see how much pressure it takes to cause an avalanche
(and I have no idea what that even means)
Depth hoar is more dangerous, it Lubes up the two layers so they can avalanche easier 😝
Also beware of facets!
beware of surface hoar 😂
You don't have to be scared. It's all about how you treat the surface hoar
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In the U.S. at least they trigger some avalanches with artillery shots
Mortars, and the explosive round is in cardboard.
Why not also mention avalanches that don't involve snow, but rocks on the side on a hill or mountain? Are these far less common? (And can there be one that involves a combination of both rocks and snow? Also, sand avalanches.
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All I got from that video is that the stripe in Michael's hair is back. That kinda bugged me when it was gone, he didn't look right. Am I the only person who noticed that?
The blonde is back !! Long Live The Blonde !!
Y no videos of people getting buried by snow?
How did Shan Yu survived....?
"Millions of Kilogramms". Usually you would say thousands of tons... but i don't want to complain good video.
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Does it matter?
He was using the shiny new kilogram.
@@fedas15 A million is a bit harder to imagine than a thousand. Most people know how much a metric ton weighs.
@@jamesmnguyen No. Everyone in Europe uses kilograms all the time to quantify weight. So it's much easier to compare weights between each other using kilograms.
This guy sounds suspiciously like John Green 🤔
but can you survive a huricane/tornado by gripping a pole?
Who did you call a surface hoar?
So, surface hoars have a loose bottom?
Why explain how two layers form in the loose avalanch?, where it is kinda obvious how it forms. and not explain how the two layers form to create the slabs?? which completly does not make sense to me as to how two layers can form with the looser one on THE BOTTOM
Because Science.
A sonic boom isnt enough to trigger an avalanche? Sonic booms are strong enough to knock people off their feet, thats kind of crazy that they cant trigger some loose snow.
Hurtydwarf they're just a gust of strong wind. Maybe a really close sonic boom on some really unstable snow might, but not super likely.
@@evilsharkey8954a Sonic boom isn't a gust of wind technically
Michael Jorfi they're shockwaves in air, so they hit suddenly instead of gradually like wind gusts, but at the end of the day, they're just a sudden push of fast air, still much less force than the weight of a human.
Not sure if this is an old video or Micheal has gone back to his old look.