Slide Web cams now added 4/19-
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http://townofjackson.com/current/live-video-stream-budge-slide/
Jackson, WY. Efforts have stopped to build a tall concrete barrier to stall part of the East Gros Ventre Butte from giving away. The incipient slide has changed from movement too slow for the naked eye to fast enough to […]
Continue Reading →Slide was not started by spring thaw and rain alone-
The slide (or maybe best called a “slump”) above the northwest part of Jackson, Wyoming was not just the product of a wet spring, the spring thaw, and a steep slope known to have been unstable.
A lengthy story in the Jackson Hole […]
Continue Reading →Area beneath East Gros Ventre Butte closed-
Update on 4/11 at the bottom of page-
After the deadly slide at Oso, Washington, people take landslides more seriously. The area on the East Gros Ventre Butte at Jackson, Wyoming, has developed a bulge, signaling an incipient mudslide. Below it there are about about 60 residents […]
Continue Reading →The Snake River Canyon between Alpine and Jackson Hole, Wyoming is notable for its unstable mountainslopes. This mountain range is very prone to earthflows, one reason the Snake River Range is not cut up with dirt roads. The whole place would come down. However, a U.S. Highway has followed the canyon for perhaps 75 years, […]
Continue Reading →Canal that caused landslide and death can be re-routed only at a high cost-
That this canal failed should hardly have been a surprise. My grandfather, H.C. Hansen was a geologist. He lived underneath the canal on Canyon Road for many years. He died at age 97 back in 1969. One of the things all […]
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