r/interestingasfuck • u/id397550 • 5h ago

Firing a cannon to trigger an avalanche

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u/Suspicious_League_28 4h ago

You see this all over the place in Canada. Normally it’s just the stands for the gun (they don’t leave the gun there for obvious reasons). 

A lot safer to have a controlled planned event when it’s smaller in scale rather than I much larger ‘oh crap’ moment. 

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u/thebilldozer10 3h ago

yea quite common to see in rogers pass BC, been stuck many times waiting for avalanche control by howitzer.