Snowdrift at sandbar bank Gallery
Date Observed: Mar 16, 2010
 Charlie Campbell, Knut Kielland, Bill Schneider and Ronnie Evans stand on top of a sandbar and talk about the role sandbars play in safe river travel, and how one has to be careful because the snowdrift can hide thin ice. Processes Observed |
 Chas Jones and Ronnie Evans walk along the top of the sandbar. Processes Observed |
 View from top of sandbar looking down at snow drifted along the bank edge. Processes Observed |
 Chas Jones carefully walks on ice below the sandbar, which may or may not be thin ice. |
Ronnie Evans talks about the dangers of thin ice below cutbanks with snowdrifts, and how it can be safer to stick to rough ice if you do not know the river. Processes Observed |
Charlie Campbell tells a story about Charlie Boulding to demonstrate how snowdrifts under cutbanks can hide open holes, and how staying out on rough ice can be safer. Processes Observed |
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Chas Jones Thin ice alongside a snowdrift built up along sandbar bank edge. Processes Observed |
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Chas Jones Undercut snowdrift on the end of a sandbar that is not visible from above. This could be dangerous if the drift were to collapse under a snowmachine when leaving the sandbar. Processes Observed |
Charlie Campbell points out a dangerous location that is the result of an active cutbank, snowdrift, southern exposure, and dirt in the snow. Processes Observed |
