Here is the view from our highest spot of the day.
Very close to here Ms. Fran (our 3 year old mutt) got too far out on a cornice and it went crashing down with her on top of it. Akiko and I were standing about 3 feet away and felt a rumble and then "boom." It took us a second to realize Fran was gone. It was only about a 10 foot fall, but the cornice that came off was huge. 20 feet wide by 6 feet long by about 4 deep at the deepest point. We were just happy she stayed on top of the chunks!
After she got her bearings and a couple of minutes of slow moving nervousness, she was as good as new. That musta scared the shit out of the poor thing. I am laughing now, but was a little freaked myself when it happened.
This is a different cornice of about the same size that Fran rode down.
Akiko decided that it would be a fun ride if one could collapse a cornice on purpose and ride it down. So at the next small cornice we came to, she tried it out. She started to tiptoe out to the edge and I told her to hang on a second.
The next thing either of us knew she was flopping around on the ground at the bottom of the cornice. It happened so fast I did not even get a picture of her. She is not so interested in riding cornices any more though...
Another pic of Akiko and the girls in the snow ghosts.
And a shot of some snow ball tracks.
Fun day in the snow.
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