Extreme angle snow grooming

[MNoutdoors RIP]

Don't try this at home ! I would not want to be any where Close if the cable failed.

 

[300 H and H]

Yikes!!!

At Copper Point at Bessemer Michigan, they had a winch cat at the top, started backing down the hill, and the anchor they attached the cable to pulled out of the frozen ground.

3 men in the cab, all with eyes big as dinner plates as they watched the anchor pull free. Those at the top saw them disappear from view as they slid the machine back wards down the face of the ski jump hill.

Fortunately the machine came to a stop about half way down.

Lots of dirty under ware in that cab...

Regards, Kirk

 

[JimVT]

I wouldn't even be one of those standing on top.

 

[MNoutdoors RIP]

Must have a modified oil pan for sure at that angle the oil would be on one end or the other based on up or down orientation.

 

[akmountaineer]

I'd settle for the Tahoe resorts just to groom the regular old black diamonds. It seems like they all cheap out when it comes to winch cats despite record numbers of people on the slopes.

 

[300 H and H]

Must have a modified oil pan for sure at that angle the oil would be on one end or the other based on up or down orientation.

I wonder if they don't have to go to a dry sump system with pickups on each end of the pan. I don't see any other way to keep oil in a conventional pan, even if baffled heavily..

Older Cat dozers had a pan with a sump on either end, and a pick up tube in each. But I don't think even that would be good enough..

Regards, Kirk

 

[Knocker of rocks]

I wonder how steep it really is, because that photo is grossly over steepened

 

[300 H and H]

I wonder how steep it really is, because that photo is grossly over steepened

I thought so to, until I noticed the people standing vertically at the top center of the photo. It may be tilted slightly, but not much...

Regards, Kirk

 

[MNoutdoors RIP]

I wonder how steep it really is, because that photo is grossly over steepened

There is a person very left side partial visible using them as a level looks to be pretty level in the alps they have some very extreme winch cat locations

 

[Knocker of rocks]

The photo is apparently at Whistler-Blackcomb. It is grossly exaggerated by a combination of camera tilt,pixel aspect (photos from phones are often compressed in the x-axis) and location of the photographer ( photographs taken quarter on to the slope will preserve the vertical componet but shorten the horizontal component)

 

[MNoutdoors RIP]

The photo is apparently at Whistler-Blackcomb. It is grossly exaggerated by a combination of camera tilt,pixel aspect (photos from phones are often compressed in the x-axis) and location of the photographer ( photographs taken quarter on to the slope will preserve the vertical componet but shorten the horizontal component)

Why do you think the photo is from whistler ?

 

[jask]

The facebook story is that this is Johnny Foon at Whistler Blackcomb..

if it is blackcomb it is couloir Extreme... if it is Whistler it is The Couloir
Blackcomb
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hm4aqEYDIJ4

Whistler
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6l6Cq7AsbA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-AGsyZghtg


looks like Blackcomb to me..?
did I say blackcomb..? I meant to say INSANITY!! that looks like insanity to me!

 

[squerly]

Wonder what that job pays?

 

[pixie]

I'm thinking the ground pressure is pretty low at that angle. Better rev up the tiller !

 

[loggah]

Ya and be tilling in the reverse mode !!! It doesn't make sense grooming those type of slopes ,expert or freestyle only ,let them handle the bumps.My friend Floyd was one of the originators of Freestyle skiing along with Wayne Wong ,and George Askervold. Floyd went to Whistler and taught every summer.