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SES1083 (RF) Hurricane Fabian over the North Atlantic near Bermuda Sept 2003 - based on a NOAA public domain image
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OAC4306 (RM) A large wet-slab avalanche triggered by explosives in Scotts Bowl at Park City Mountain Resort 3-18-07.  The slope has been heavily skied all season but did not see much traffic early in the season when the weak layer of depth hoar was originally formed. Stock Photo
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OAC4305 (RM) Stock Image of A closer look at the fracture.  It was on a 38 degree east facing slope around 9700.  The fracture was about two hundred yards wide and 2-3 feet deep.
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OAC4304 (RM) Two snowmobilers admiring the debris for scale.  The debris had lots of broken trees in it. Stock Photo
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OAC4308 (RM) Stock Image of National Ski Patrol members practice probing for a buried avalanche victim.  Bridger Bowl Ski Area Montana
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OAC4310 (RM) A natural avalanche in the south end of Meadow Chutes in Silver Fork of Big Cottonwood Canyon.  The avalanche probably occurred on 12-9-04.
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OAC4312 (RM) Stock Photo of Yahoo!  It created its own bobsled run as it descended
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OAC4311 (RM) Stock Photo of A skier triggered avalanche in Meadow Chutes Big Cottonwood Canyon Utah
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OAC4303 (RM) Stock Photo of Surface hoar crystals.  They grow on the snow surface during clear calm and humid conditions.  They are a dangerous weak layer that can produce avalanches once they are buried by additional snow.
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OAC4309 (RM) Rescuers working with dogs and probes to find the second avalanche victim in Mineral Fork 12-12-04. Stock Photo
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OAC4302 (RM) Stock Photo of Wind can deposit snow ten times more rapidly than snow falling out of the sky making wind loading the most important weather factor to consider in determining avalanche danger.  Here the wind erodes from the windward side and deposits on the lee side.  Ph
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OAC4295 (RM) Stock Photo of Jason West walks along the fracture line of an avalanche incident in Silver Fork 11-14-06 in which one person was completely buried in an avalanche they triggered and Jason dug out by his partners in time to save his life.  Here he returned to the scene t
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OAC4294 (RM) A massive avalanche in January 2005 in Scotties avalanche path Little Cottonwood Canyon Wasatch Range Utah.
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OAC4293 (RM) Stock Image of  A team of rescuers from Utah County Search and Rescue probe for three missing snowboarders on the Elk Point avalanche path on Mt. Timpanogos north of Sundance Ut.
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OAC4296 (RM) Snowbird ski patrollers firing the 105 howitzer to control avalanches.  They are firing at avalanche starting zones above the highway in  Little Cottonwood Canyon Utah. Stock Photo
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OAC4298 (RM) The debris by the northern flank wall. Stock Photo
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OAC4300 (RM) Stock Photo of Snowbird ski patrollers firing the 105 howitzer to control avalanches.  They are firing at avalanche starting zones above the highway in  Little Cottonwood Canyon Utah.
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OAC4299 (RM) Snowbird Ski Area ski patrollers shoot a 105 mm Howitzer cannon for avalanche control above the Little Cottonwood Canyon highway Utah.
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OAC4313 (RM) The avalanche was about a third of a mile wide at the fracture line running from the lookers right shoulder to the central gully.
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OAC4314 (RM) Stock Photo of As is often the case with large wet avalanches it gouged down to the dirt and created its own bobsled run.  Wet avalanches are usually very destructive events.
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OAC4327 (RM) A massive natural avalanche off Mt. Timpanogos Wasatch Range Utah.
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OAC4326 (RM) A huge natural avalanche off of Elk Point on Mt. Timpanogos Utah on January 12 2005
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OAC4325 (RM) Stock Photo of Surface hoar crystals.  They grow on the snow surface during clear calm and humid conditions.  They are a dangerous weak layer that can produce avalanches once they are buried by additional snow.
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OAC4328 (RM) A massive avalanche in the Argenta slidepath in Big Cottonwood Canyon Utah.  The avalanche was intentionally triggered by helicopter-thrown explosives.  the avalanche has not crossed the road in 50 years and it wiped out dozens of acres of 50-year old tre
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OAC4330 (RM) Search dogs in the Mineral Fork double snowshoer fatality 12-11-04 in Utah
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More Force of nature Images
OAC4331 - This is the White Pine road just 200 yards from the trailhead and is now impassible. Now you have to find a creative way to get through. 
OAC4324 - A massive avalanche destroyed the bottom terminal of the tramway at Bridal Veil Falls in Provo Canyon Utah 1-27-96. 
OAC4323 - This is a very large natural avalanche that occurred on 2-27-07 when strong wind combined with dense snow fell. The avalanche is in South Monitor on the Park City ridgeline. It broke about a half mile wide taking out the entire bowl and the fracture ave 
OAC4318 - A glide avalanche in Broads Fork Wasatch Range Utah. A glide avalanche is a type of wet avalanche in which the entire snowpack slides slowly on the ground similar to a glacier until the entire slab fails catastrophically. 
OAC4316 - A huge natural wet-slab avalanche released late in the afternoon of March 13 2007 on the northwest face of Gobblers Knob in the upper left of the photo. The wet debris gouged out a 40 foot deep trough and filled it with dense wet avalanche debris. The d 
OAC4315 - A nice glide avalanche off one of the Porter Fork cabin roofs. The very warm temperatrues cause melt water to percolate through the snowpack and lubricate up the interface between the snow and the impermiable roof. This happens in the backcountry too es 
OAC4319 - Strong north winds blew through the day which loaded the south facing slopes and may have contributed to the natural avalanche activity on Elk Point 
OAC4320 - The avalanche was composed of 2 feet of dense wind-blown snow on top of an extremely weak and fragile layer of depth hoar. Its like puting a brick on top of a pile of potato chips. These kinds of avalanches are very tricky to mess around with because as 
OAC4322 - Skier-triggered avalanche in East Monitor along the Park City ridgeline Wasatch Range Utah 
OAC4321 - The avalanche broke out 2-3 feet deep and nearly 200 yards wide as far as we could tell. We skied into the distance along the ridge to see how far the fracture propagated but visibility was so bad we could not tell how wide it broke out. In a brief clea 
OAC4291 - Alaska avalanche expert Doug Fesler shows his friend Bruce Tremper Director of the Utah Avalanche Center the monster mile 5.5 avalanche path in Cordova Alaska where an avalanche wiped out several houses and buldings and killed one person in January of 200 
OAC4292 - Jason West walks along the fracture line of an avalanche incident in Silver Fork 11-14-06 in which one person was completely buried in an avalanche they triggered and Jason dug out by his partners in time to save his life. Here he returned to the scene t 
OAC4250 - Janet Kellam Director of the Sawtooth National Forest Avalanche Center measures slope steepness. 
OAC4245 - Skier-triggered avalanche in East Monitor along the Park City ridgeline Wasatch Range Utah 
OAC4244 - This is the backcountry access gate at the Canyons Resort in Utah at the top of the Peak 9990 lift that lets people know in no uncertain terms that they are entering an uncontrolled backcountry area. Several people have died in avalanches after they pass 
OAC4251 - Kitty Calhoon practicing with her avalanche rescue beacon 
OAC4252 - Kitty Calhoon performing snowpit tests to check the stability of the snowpack. 
OAC4285 - Alaska avalanche forecaster Bill Glude Alta Utah doing avalanche work in a howling blizard. The Avalung device on his chest allows him to breathe while under avalanche debris in case something goes wrong. 
OAC4254 - Kitty Calhoon performing snowpit tests to check the stability of the snowpack. 
OAC4253 - Kitty Calhoon performing snowpit tests to check the stability of the snowpack. 
OAC4243 - Utah Avalanche Center forecaster Drew Hardesty examines the fracture line of an avalanche I intentionally triggered by kicking a cornice from a nearby ridge top. 
OAC4242 - Dean Cardenale and his avalanche rescue dog Midas who found both victims in the Mineral Fork double snowshoer fatality 12-11-04. 
OAC4234 - Bruce Tremper Director of the Utah Avalanche Center examines the fracture line of a large avalanche White Pine Little Cottonwood Canyon Wasatch Range Utah 
OAC4233 - Bruce Tremper Director of the Utah Avalanche Center investigates a large avalanche on the Argenta slide path in Big Cottonwood Canyon Utah 
BEN2146 - Wind measurement with wind pointer, windmill 
OAC4235 - Bruce Tremper examines the fracture line of an avalanche Silver Fork Big Cottonwood Canyon Utah 
OAC4236 - Bruce Tremper Director of the Forest Service Utah Avalanche Center does a fracture line profile on the avalanche in Meadow Chutes Silver Fork Big Cotttonwood Canyon Utah. 
OAC4241 - A backcountry skier carefully approaches a large cornice in the mountains near Logan Utah 
OAC4238 - Bruce Tremper Director of the Utah Avalanche Center investigates a large avalanche on the Argenta slide path in Big Cottonwood Canyon Utah 
OAC4237 - Bruce Tremper Director of the Utah Avalanche Center investigates a large avalanche on the Argenta slide path in Big Cottonwood Canyon Utah 
OAC4256 - Kitty Calhoon performing snowpit tests to check the stability of the snowpack. 
OAC4255 - Kitty Calhoon performing snowpit tests to check the stability of the snowpack. 
OAC4274 - Wow what a windy snowy day. The winds were howling along the Park City - Big Cottonwood ridgeline--strong enough to knock you down. Combined with a foot of snow there was widespread areas of sensitive wind slabs on all the lee terrain. 
OAC4273 - Signs at a backcountry access trailhead in Little Cottonwood Canyon Utah warn skiers and snowboarders about the dangers of avalanches and lights warn them when they are about to do avalanche control with cannons. 
OAC4257 - Kitty Calhoon checking the steepness of a slope 
OAC4275 - A student practices with an avalanche rescue beacon at an avalanche class Brighton Utah 
OAC4276 - The owner digs snow out of his car which was damaged by avalanches at Alta Utah 1993. The car was unoccupied when the avalanche occurred during the early morning hours. Bruce Tremper photo 
OAC4279 - A massive natural avalanche destroyed the bottom terminal of a tramway at Bridal Veil Falls in Provo Canyon Utah 1-27-1996. Here a Sheriffs rescue worker surveys the damage. 
OAC4278 - Alaska avalanche forecaster Bill Glude Alta Utah doing avalanche work in a howling blizard. The Avalung device on his chest allows him to breathe while under avalanche debris in case something goes wrong. 
OAC4266 - Huge surface hoar crystals in the low lying areas. Surface hoar grows on the surface of the snow during calm clear and humid conditoins. Once buried they are a notoriously persistent weak-layer in the snowpack. Some of these crystals are an inch long. 
OAC4269 - It was a dark and stormy day... Susi struggles against the strong wind and heavy snow near the summit of Peak 10420 a backcountry area between Brighton and Park City resorts. Yep this is what you would call avalanche weather. New snow and especially wi 
OAC4260 - Part of the Argenta avalanche broke up to 5 feet deep but the trigger point was in a 3 foot deep section. 
OAC4265 - An avalanche class at Brighton Utah 
OAC4258 - Kitty Calhoon checking the steepness of a slope 
OAC4261 - Bruce Tremper Director of the Utah Avalanche Center measures the steepness of a slope which was recently triggered by skiers.  
OAC4259 - Kitty Calhoon checking the steepness of a slope 
OAC4262 - The weak layer was a wet layer of depth hoar near the ground and the slab was a very hard ski-compacted layer 2-3 feet deep. The entire snowpack was damp to wet. It was the third day of very warm temperatures with only superficial refreezes at night. H 
OAC4264 - Avalanche forecaster Brad Meiklejohn with the Utah Avalanche Center cuts a thin section of snow to show the layers in the snow. In this case new snow sits on top of very weak depth hoar. 
OAC4263 - A small snowmobile-triggered soft slab avalanche. Talkeetna Mountains Alaska 
NEA2109 - Detail of frozen lava Kilauea Volcano Hawaii 
MES4365 - Traffic sign high tide storm tide 
NEA2108 - Ripples on cold black lava 
PAN1365 - People in blue rain coats enjoying Canadian Horseshoe Niagara Falls view from Maid of the Mist Boat Ride 
NWA1992 - Whirlpool 
NWA1998 - Water surface 
NWA1991 - Whirlpool 
NWA1990 - Whirlpool 
NWA1989 - Whirlpool 
TAR1280 - Amazing view of the fantastic Iguazu Falls on Brazilian National Park of Iguacu with a beautiful rainbow on the foreground, Foz do Iguacu, Parana, Brazil 
NAB2527 - Magnificent view of the Iguazu Falls on Brazilian National Park of Iguacu on a golden light near the sunset - Foz do Iguacu Parana Brazil 
TAR1279 - Magnificent view of the Iguazu Falls on Brazilian National Park of Iguacu with a incredible rainbow on the foreground, Foz do Iguacu, Parana, Brazil 
PRE1563 - Man carrying a beautiful mermaid from the sea 
PRE1667 - young couple embracing the sun on a tropical beach 
PRE1555 - Man carrying a beautiful woman on the beach 
PRE1554 - Man carrying a beautiful woman on the beach 
PRE1553 - Man carrying a beautiful mermaid at the beach 
PAB2917 - Conceptual photo-illustration of ice being removed from a frozen window by a female hand showing blooming vivid summer field of poppies. Forces of nature concept. The Image has a clipping path around the hand. 
PRO1145 - couple enjoying a wonderful bright summer day at the beach 
PRO1149 - young couple having fun on a tropical beach 
PRO1152 - young couple enjoying their honeymoon on the summer of a tropical beach 
PWO2456 - fishermen arriving at beach after an exhaustive day of hard work at the sea - Ponta Negra beach, Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil 
PRO1150 - Man holding a beautiful woman on the beach 
PAB2916 - Conceptual photo-illustration of ice being removed from a frozen window by a female hand showing blooming vivid summer field of flowers. Forces of nature concept. The Image has a clipping path around the hand. 
PRO1147 - Man holding a beautiful woman on the beach 
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