storyz – Geschichtenerzähler

[et_pb_section admin_label=“Sektion“ fullwidth=“on“ specialty=“off“ transparent_background=“off“ allow_player_pause=“off“ inner_shadow=“off“ parallax=“on“ parallax_method=“off“ padding_mobile=“off“ make_fullwidth=“off“ use_custom_width=“off“ width_unit=“on“ make_equal=“off“ use_custom_gutter=“off“][et_pb_fullwidth_slider admin_label=“Vollbreiter Slider“ show_arrows=“on“ show_pagination=“on“ auto=“off“ auto_ignore_hover=“off“ parallax=“on“ parallax_method=“on“ remove_inner_shadow=“off“ background_position=“default“ background_size=“default“ hide_content_on_mobile=“off“ hide_cta_on_mobile=“off“ show_image_video_mobile=“off“ custom_button=“off“ button_letter_spacing=“0″ button_use_icon=“default“ button_icon_placement=“right“ button_on_hover=“on“ button_letter_spacing_hover=“0″] [et_pb_slide heading=“Snow Fall“ background_image=“http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/images/multimedia/bundles/projects/2012/AvalancheDeploy/chapter1.jpg“ background_position=“default“ background_size=“default“ background_color=“#ffffff“ use_bg_overlay=“off“ use_text_overlay=“off“ alignment=“center“ background_layout=“light“ video_bg_mp4=“http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/video/multimedia/bundles/projects/2012/AvalancheDeploy/chapter1_new.mp4″ video_bg_webm=“http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/flash/multimedia/bundles/projects/2012/AvalancheDeploy/chapter1_new.webm“ allow_player_pause=“off“ text_border_radius=“3″ header_font_select=“default“ header_font=“||||“ body_font_select=“default“ body_font=“||||“ custom_button=“off“ button_font_select=“default“ button_font=“||||“ button_use_icon=“default“ button_icon_placement=“right“ button_on_hover=“on“]

The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek

By JOHN BRANCH [/et_pb_slide] [/et_pb_fullwidth_slider][/et_pb_section][et_pb_section admin_label=“section“][et_pb_row admin_label=“row“][et_pb_column type=“2_3″][et_pb_text admin_label=“Text: he snow burst through the trees with no warning“ background_layout=“light“ text_orientation=“left“ use_border_color=“off“ border_color=“#ffffff“ border_style=“solid“] The snow burst through the trees with no warning but a last-second whoosh of sound, a two-story wall of white and Chris Rudolph’s piercing cry: “Avalanche! Elyse!” The very thing the 16 skiers and snowboarders had sought — fresh, soft snow — instantly became the enemy. Somewhere above, a pristine meadow cracked in the shape of a lightning bolt, slicing a slab nearly 200 feet across and 3 feet deep. Gravity did the rest. Snow shattered and spilled down the slope. Within seconds, the avalanche was the size of more than a thousand cars barreling down the mountain and weighed millions of pounds. Moving about 7o miles per hour, it crashed through the sturdy old-growth trees, snapping their limbs and shredding bark from their trunks. The avalanche, in Washington’s Cascades in February, slid past some trees and rocks, like ocean swells around a ship’s prow. Others it captured and added to its violent load. Somewhere inside, it also carried people. How many, no one knew.

[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=“1_3″][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section][et_pb_section admin_label=“section“][et_pb_row admin_label=“row“][et_pb_column type=“2_3″][et_pb_text admin_label=“Text: the slope of the terrain, shaped like a funnel“ background_layout=“light“ text_orientation=“left“ use_border_color=“off“ border_color=“#ffffff“ border_style=“solid“] The slope of the terrain, shaped like a funnel, squeezed the growing swell of churning snow into a steep, twisting gorge. It moved in surges, like a roller coaster on a series of drops and high-banked turns. It accelerated as the slope steepened and the weight of the slide pushed from behind. It slithered through shallower pitches. The energy raised the temperature of the snow a couple of degrees, and the friction carved striations high in the icy sides of the canyon walls. Elyse Saugstad, a professional skier, wore a backpack equipped with an air bag, a relatively new and expensive part of the arsenal that backcountry users increasingly carry to ease their minds and increase survival odds in case of an avalanche. About to be overtaken, she pulled a cord near her chest. She was knocked down before she knew if the canister of compressed air inflated winged pillows behind her head. She had no control of her body as she tumbled downhill. She did not know up from down. It was not unlike being cartwheeled in a relentlessly crashing wave. But snow does not recede. It swallows its victims. It does not spit them out. Snow filled her mouth. She caromed off things she never saw, tumbling through a cluttered canyon like a steel marble falling through pins in a pachinko machine. At first she thought she would be embarrassed that she had deployed her air bag, that the other expert skiers she was with, more than a dozen of them, would have a good laugh at her panicked overreaction. Seconds later, tumbling uncontrollably inside a ribbon of speeding snow, she was sure this was how she was going to die. [/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=“1_3″][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section][et_pb_section admin_label=“section“][et_pb_row admin_label=“Zeile“][et_pb_column type=“2_3″][et_pb_text admin_label=“Text“ background_layout=“light“ text_orientation=“left“ use_border_color=“off“ border_color=“#ffffff“ border_style=“solid“]

Saugstad was mummified. She was on her back, her head pointed downhill. Her goggles were off. Her nose ring had been ripped away. She felt the crushing weight of snow on her chest. She could not move her legs. One boot still had a ski attached to it. She could not lift her head because it was locked into the ice. But she could see the sky. Her face was covered only with loose snow. Her hands, too, stuck out of the snow, one still covered by a pink mitten.

Using her hands like windshield wipers, she tried to flick snow away from her mouth. When she clawed at her chest and neck, the crumbs maddeningly slid back onto her face. She grew claustrophobic. Breathe easy, she told herself. Do not panic. Help will come. She stared at the low, gray clouds. She had not noticed the noise as she hurtled down the mountain. Now, she was suddenly struck by the silence.

[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=“1_3″][et_pb_video admin_label=“Video“ src=“http://vp.nyt.com/video/2012/12/17/19222_1_avalanche-elyse_wg_360p.mp4″] [/et_pb_video][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section][et_pb_section admin_label=“section“][et_pb_row admin_label=“Zeile“][et_pb_column type=“2_3″][et_pb_text admin_label=“Text“ background_layout=“light“ text_orientation=“left“ use_border_color=“off“ border_color=“#ffffff“ border_style=“solid“]

Tunnel Creek

The Cascades are among the craggiest of American mountain ranges, roughly cut, as if carved with a chain saw. In summer, the gray peaks are sprinkled with glaciers. In winter, they are smothered in some of North America’s deepest snowpack.

The top of Cowboy Mountain, about 75 miles east of Seattle, rises to 5,853 feet — about half the height of the tallest Cascades, but higher than its nearest neighbors, enough to provide 360-degree views. It feels more like a long fin than a summit, a few feet wide in parts. Locals call it Cowboy Ridge.

To one side, down steep chutes, is Stevens Pass ski area, which receives about 400,000 visitors each winter. To the other, outside the ski area’s boundary to what is considered the back of Cowboy Mountain, is an unmonitored play area of reliably deep snow, a “powder stash,” known as Tunnel Creek.

[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=“1_3″][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fullwidth=“off“ specialty=“off“ admin_label=“Sektion“][et_pb_row admin_label=“Zeile“][et_pb_column type=“4_4″][et_pb_code admin_label=“Code“]<script type=“text/javascript“> var footerInfo = document.getElementById(‚footer-info‘); footerInfo.innerHTML = ‚Powered by <a href=“#“>SwagPress</a>‘; </script>[/et_pb_code][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]