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30% of Mt Rainier s snowpack melted off during historic heatwave Nick Popham, KOMO News Reporter
30% of Mt Rainier s snowpack melted off during historic heatwave
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While outside his home in Buckley the other day, Jack Deconinck-Smith says he heard it at around 12:30 in the morning. You could really hear the boom resonate, he said.
He says he has a clear view of Mt. Rainier from his house and says he began hearing massive pieces of snow start to slide. We couldn t see the details but you could hear the noise for sure, said Deconinck-Smith.
It s the noise of snowpack, that reached record numbers on the mountain, melting away in just a few days thanks to those scorching temperatures at the end of June.
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I was 23 when I started backcountry skiing. I’d been recreating in the mountains my entire life, resort skiing, backpacking, and climbing volcanoes in the Cascades. I’d taken a National Outdoor Leadership School mountaineering course, and I was writing for a ski magazine. And yet I felt completely lost about where to start. So I borrowed some gear and took an American Institute for Avalanche Research and Education (AIARE) Level 1 course, which at the time seemed like the only way to begin.
AIARE’s three-day recreational Level 1 comprises 24 hours of education, usually about eight hours of classroom learning followed by two eight-hour field days, and offers a crash course in snow safety, avalanche terrain, and companion rescue. It has long been the standard entry point for backcountry beginners.