{"id":572,"date":"2012-01-15T21:08:42","date_gmt":"2012-01-16T04:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/isurvivedthehurley.com\/?p=572"},"modified":"2012-01-15T21:08:42","modified_gmt":"2012-01-16T04:08:42","slug":"hurley-avalanche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/isurvivedthehurley.com\/?p=572","title":{"rendered":"Hurley Avalanche!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sometime this month a big avalanche came ripping down off the Green Mountain ridge and covered the Hurley Road at 12km on the Gold Bridge side.\u00a0 Debris is piled up 18 feet high and covers about 80 feet of road.\u00a0 This left the road unpassable.\u00a0 This ran on\u00a0 that persistant weak layer that the avalanche forecasters keep talking about.<\/p>\n

Today, local residents Ken and Shirley from Top Gun Towing hand dug a path for sled traffic to get through the avalanche debris.\u00a0 Big Thanks go out to them both for clearing the path from all the sledders in the Valley and beyond!<\/p>\n

The Hurley Road is now open from Gold Bridge & Bralorne to Pemberton for sled traffic.\u00a0 Conditions at each end are icy but the new snow is helping to cover the ice up.\u00a0 Thanks to Mike Jensen for the avalanche images.<\/p>\n