It's a good idea to remember that all of the big peaks in the Cascade Mountains are volcanoes and they are still active. Gas and steam emissions chemically alter and weaken the rocks and leave many areas in an unstable condition. Glacier activity also cuts steep slopes and rock walls that can intersect the weak areas. When you are climbing on any of the Cascade peaks, be very careful. Check the geologic maps for zones of weakened rock along your proposed route and plan accordingly.

Wow, thank you for posting this! This is a great example of this geographical phenomenon on video because even though you zoomed in, you kept the camera focused and from shaking. Those close up shots are some of the best I have ever seen, geologically speaking. I have a renewed sense of just how "liquid" the rocks can act all on their own, even through/during snowpacks. As a late season skier, it is always something I wondered about.

I was about 150 feet behind this guy taking the video. It was a fantastic scene.

I was at Camp Muir when this occurred. Everything became covered in dust. We could hear it happening but couldn't see it. Very frightening...great video!

This is a good reminder to use ridge approaches when mountaineering. Using couloirs to get up a mountain is always a crap chute.

@mqbitsko25

2 жыл бұрын

I see what you did there.

@ChristianRaymondFilms

2 жыл бұрын

Yessir

Thank you for zooming in on the main path -- it's interesting seeing such smooth (even laminar) flow without a lot of turbulence to entrain underlying snow. Geoscience discussion of this event will likely take place on Dave's Landslide Blog hosted by the AGU.

Gotta love the distant commentary from the Muir snowfield regulars

I've crossed Nisqually Glacier three times in the previous year and planned to do it again soon. After this event I may rethink it. Great video!

Gives whole new meaning to those Watch For Falling Rocks signs.....

Awesome capture! I love our volcanoes, we wheel and camp around Rainier alot, beautiful and dangerous country.

Great video! It's been years since I last summited Rainier (1974) but I think of it often. I keep telling myself, "one of these days" I have to get back up there.

@HaikuAutomation

6 жыл бұрын

Get up there again, worth the work and effort. Go spelunking in the ice caves as well while up on the cap.

Amazing footage and I'm glad everyone was safe!

That's nuts. I was there on Muir's snowfield when it happened but my camera didn't do the filming any justice. I'm glad I stumbled across this. It was a pretty amazing sight.

I saw this from Packwood, but didn't realize what was going on until I saw the news later. Great pictures.

Good god.... I was planning to summit raineir sometime..... Idk about that anymore lol

I was on the mountain when that happened and I was shocked. Nice video of it.

I was at Camp Muir when this occured. Great video!

Yikes. I’ve crossed that glacier a number of times.

@MrPingus69 no, that's not a pyroclastic flow. That involves the collapse of an ash column during an eruption event. This is just a landslide.

This is frightening! Great video!

Holy crap! Thanks for the video. I'm planning to climb Rainer in the summer of 2012 and I hope this doesn't happen when I'm there.

I was at camp Muir when this happened and there was a tent set up very close to where the rock fall occurred those people scattered within seconds but they had the best view tho, glad everyone is ok.

no this was no pyroclastic flow,this was just a mix of ice ,lavarock,ash and water. also know as a lahar or jøkullaup.This one was actually fairly small too.If it had been raining and the weather had been mild,this could been much much larger.

@reverendjimjones9061

5 жыл бұрын

its not even a lahar, its a rock slide

@norml.hugh-mann

5 жыл бұрын

Or a glacial outburst/debris flow is what they are calling them now....you can see the water in tge video.....rock slides are much dryer

Now thats one thing i wouldn't wanna be in the way of !!! Great video .

me and friend did ranier about 41 years ago and its "russian roulette" we went over from muir to disappointment cleaver and walked right over the top of the 13 that got kill swept into the crevasses from massive ice fall like this shows

@thevisioncreation You should certainly wait until it calms down. Especially as there was another massive fall on Monday, I think.

I take my hat off to the person who filmed this amazing spectacle for remaining quiet. Usually films like this are include the inane whoops, hoola's and OMG's of the witnesses, usually women.

@gantmj

9 жыл бұрын

***** Clearly you have no concept of evolution, and why women are programmed to yell in the face of danger. The only lack of class I see here is your bad attitude.

@therealchicken7395

6 жыл бұрын

gantmj shut it

@hippojuice23

6 жыл бұрын

WOW!

@mclanta no you weren´t. I do understand. I understand all about the hydrothermal alteration of the mountain, well, maybe not all about, but I have a pretty good idea what´s happening, of course we can´t know for sure. but anyways, yeah, I was just clarifying to Tredeshere that if there was an ERUPTION, lahars aside, that we should be able to detect it in time. Lahars, now that´s a different story, because they can be instantaneous.

@godsfireworks Yea i hear ya man, I walk the Foot Hills Trail every single day.. The Lahar is always in my mind as I'm right in its path, at some points getting 50-100ft up is pretty hard, not so bad at others but yea would suck to hit while out on the trail.

Wow! no wonder MT. Rainier is getting smaller by the day. It appears that half went down. Were you scare? That thing was scary.

That was huge, great footage.

One never knows when mother nature will do next... Just lucky you wasn't in the slide area...

The thumbnail pix looks like the 2nd step on Everest.

If i were standing where this guy was, watching what he was watching, I'd be shitting my pants in fear that the noise and vibration from that might cause something where I was standing....

@godsfireworks I certainly hope so. Through the grapevine (I'm on the mountain all the time as I live 20 mins away from the Carbon River entrance) Is that they have seen limited seismic increase but there has been increase vs what was seen 10 or even 20 years ago, some steam release but all of this minor. They do say however that Rainer is "waking up" she's always been awake so lol yea.. i just know i want to know when she is going to blow. I have a great view from my spot on the hill.

@x0s0p0y I had a very bad feeling about going to Rainier next week and once decided to postpone my trip the stress completely disappeared. The event in this video was one of the factors I made such a decision. A few years ago I had a similar feeling about climbing and soon later a tragic event happened. So one my laugh but I listen to "that voice".

A huge lava dome deep inside the mountain has been built up since the last eruption in the mid 1800's. The next eruption will be devastating.

@Aaron-no6pc

7 жыл бұрын

kzbxvz Fear monger

Nice footage

It looks so surreal.

Half the people here watching this on You Tube happened "to be there" when this happened. WoW. Maybe I was up there too and didn't realize it. Did anyone happen to see me while you were up there? Anyway ... can you make this a one day trip from the parking lot .. summit .. back to parking lot all in kne day?

@salw8717

6 жыл бұрын

Income Mobile if you look closely to the falling rocks you can see me running 3:50

@hoarbaby

5 жыл бұрын

You can do muir in a day rt from the parking lot

@ChristianRaymondFilms

2 жыл бұрын

I saw you yes

That's a rockslide. Typical mass wasting events are based on material, motion and speed. A lahar is a mud flow with volcanic material and anything described as a 'flow' will have large amounts of water and travel greater distances than a slide.

@tredashere Definitely not. Although there is a certainty it will go off SOMETIME, it could be weeks or it could be thousands of years. As of right now there is no evidence that it is going to go off soon. No increase in seismic activity, heat flow, or movement of the mountain. This rockfall was caused by gravity alone. when it heats up, the US geological survey will let us know. We're good, for now at least.

I'm from the USGS. I loved the video and would like to use in talks explaining mountain processes to people. Could you please email me.

Gee, I don't recall seeing anything about this on the network news stations. This must not have really happened;) Wow. You can read all about Charlie Sheen's new sitcom but they don't think this is newsworthy?

Take a look on google earth pro you can clearly see where Rainer blew out the north to north west side kind of like MT saint Helens matter of fact you can see where most of the west coast volcano's blew out and the way mud flows went

That's what they use to make ~ Raineeeeer beeeer.

was that due to volcanic activity or earthquakes in the area?

@DiLoMusic

3 жыл бұрын

How about neither

@werbenjagerman907

2 жыл бұрын

Probably structure instability in the mountain. Rainier is quite known for its landslides.

Some scary stuff right there.

Yellowstone is also quite scary.

and where exactly is the evidence for this?

@Aaron-no6pc

7 жыл бұрын

godsfireworks Usgs website

Completely wiped out the trailer park.

I wonder if that registered as an earthquake?

Nature in the raw is seldom mild.

and also a little landslide

I BET THAT ENDED YOUR HIKE

x0sp0poy, are you the person I (Adam) met yesterday at camp Muir? I regretted not exchanging info and remembered you had told me about this video online. Apologize if not.

@x0s0p0y

4 жыл бұрын

Hi Adam, yes it is me. Glad you found the video, not sure how to send a PM.

is that volcano gonna blow soon ...?

nope. It's quiet.

Rockfall my ass, that was a lahar dude...

@Aaron-no6pc

7 жыл бұрын

WILLIAM HELM KZread You're an idiot

Rockslide. Not rockfall. Slides are when the rocks travel down the mountain m

Tractor tube.....Anyone???

Hello, I work for an educational nature show and would like permission to use this clip. Can you contact me?

@x0s0p0y

8 жыл бұрын

Video is under CC, reuse allowed, you must give credit!

@johndunn4289

8 жыл бұрын

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looks more like a lahar than a rock slide.

@Aaron-no6pc

7 жыл бұрын

mick mccrohon Ignorance you have eh?

Yeah there have been multiple incidents of debri flows (Lahars),rock slides, and an uptick of seismic activity in and all around the mountain since 2017 and particularly the present 2019. Volcanic activity as well as tectonic plate movement (Earthquakes) all around the ring of fire is rapidly increasing in volume and intensity. The data clearly shows this pattern of activity is currently centered around and on the South American and Central American plate boundaries including Mexico. Creeping Northward into the plate boundaries off the West coast of the North America (United States). The recent seismic events in California are just the beginning of events to come in the near future. Note: Beginning with the massive tsunami and earthquake that crippled Japan in 2011...Follow the earthquake and volcanic events since Japan Southward along the ring of fire. It’s real!

@ChristianRaymondFilms

2 жыл бұрын

It’s very real

i hope it didn't cover the beer factory

@gb19831 I was tired :)

How many people died?

@maddiekits

8 жыл бұрын

I don't think anyone did, that isn't a super popular route...

I want to stand in the middle of the next lahar at rainier

I think that was lava flow

@Aaron-no6pc

7 жыл бұрын

Destroyerboy You're an idiot

was that caused by an earthquake!

@philipbahia659

6 жыл бұрын

niecers ok that makes sense now

that's pyroclastic flow. It wil burn you to ash in a matter of seconds.

@Aaron-no6pc

7 жыл бұрын

MrPingus69 You're crazy

nice work shooting handheld with a crappy camera

/u/stabbot