[NavyCanDo]

VIDEO ON LINK

"park officials have not closed off the area to climbers but the blogger suggests avoiding that glacier area for a while." Ya Think?

[cripplecreek]

Almost looks like river rapids.

[NavyCanDo]

This beautiful mountain is visible from my home and is only about a 90 min drive to the park entrance, but I have had the worse luck visiting it. From heavy fog moving in hiding the mountain, to the day my girlfriend and I were hulled out in an ambulance because of Carbon Monoxide Poisoning caused by a hole in a friend’s 55 Chevy’s muffler, and another hole in its floor so we can breath the stuff in for 90 min. I could write a book on my bad Mt. Rainer experiences. If the camera person was me, either my battery would have died just as the slide started, or I would be standing a thousand yards closer to the slide and ground to a pulp.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

THAT is amazing!

[ml/nj]

So if I went up to where this rock slide originated sometime last week, my guess is that I would have seen a surface of mostly solid rock. That is I wouldn't have seen the relatively small stones that are seen flowing down the mountain here. My question is: what causes the rock to fragment like this?

ML/NJ

[patriot08]

Wow. Thanks for posting.
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[super7man]

Nice camera work.

[Bean Counter]

Notice how the rocks, gravel, soil, snow, boulders and other debris flows like water, even though it is all solid material.

That is exactly what a volcanic lahar looks like, only smaller. This was only a rockslide/avalanche but if Mt. Ranier ever erupts, it will trigger a lahar that will flush the Puget Sound like a giant toilet, right out into the Pacific Ocean. So many people live in the likely path of such a lahar that if a sudden eruption of Ranier did occur, evacuation would be nearly impossible and the death toll would be staggering.

[Wally_Kalbacken]

Feets don’ fail me now!

[harpu]

Looks to me like it's George Bush's fault for whatever ridiculous reason the media wants to throw up as the cause.

[bert]

That is the reason good hiking boots have scree cuffs

[InvisibleChurch]

Mt.s are incredibly dangerous! Mr Obama, help us!

[zeugma]

bfl

[wardaddy]

I had a friend killed there in 1978 or 79.....fell from glacier

his dog found him

from Jackson MS