HOPE SLIDE MEMORIAL: Visiting Canada's 2nd Largest Landslide
The Hope Landslide occurred on January 9, 1965 trapping four people beneath the mud and debris; the bodies of two of the victims have never been recovered. A further six people were killed on this site as the result of two separate plane crashes.
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Today we are at the site of the hope slide
which is the second largest landslide in Canadian history
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On January 9 1965 residents of nearby
Hope awoke to the news of the landslide
47 million cubic tons of rock mud and
debris had come down covering highway 3
the debris trapped for individuals and
although rescue efforts were immediately
underway none of them could be saved
two of the bodies were eventually
recovered but two of the bodies still
remain trapped beneath the piles of rubble
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the slide also completely
displaced the contents of Otram lake
and threw the water against the
opposite side of the valley which wiped
away the trees and vegetation before the
water eventually settled
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over fifty years later the scar from the landslide still remains fully visible on the side
of the mountain as is the devastation
and debris that lies scattered across the valley floor
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...But the tragedy wasn't done yet On
August 13th 1965 an aircraft piloted by
S.W.K. Stephenson crashed and he was killed
Then on April 23rd 1966 a Royal Canadian
Air Force plane crashed and five of the
six crew members died as well
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Standing at the base of the slide you get a real sense of the magnitude of the
devastation and the power that must have been unleashed when the landslide occurred
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This boulder alone is roughly the size of a single car garage
and yet it managed to bethrown about half way across the valley
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There's an eerie sense of quiet in the
area which I guess comes from knowing
that two of the victims of this slide
still lie a somewhere beneath the rubble
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A small plaque commemorates the lives ofthose lost in the slide as well as those that were killed in the later plane crashes
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Highway 3 was eventually diverted and reconstructed around the slide debris
however an abandoned section of the old highway still remains
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For a more detailed retelling of the hope slide story or to get a taste of
the darker side of Canadian history
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This Week in History Season 2 Episode 18 - The Hope Slide
Originally aired January 11, 2014.
The Hope Slide - Hope British Columbia
I went to see the Hope Slide in Hope British Columbia caused by two earthquakes close together. I was shocked at how much of the mountain came down.
4 People died in the slide and two are still buried in the 500 foot thick and 2km wide pile of debris.
Check out the Wiki page link below for the full story.
I hope you get something from this video. I sure did making it.
Music by Asole Srijon by Riya Mondal and Souvik Bhattachariya.mp3
Hope Slide Jan 9,1965 || Aerial views || Beautiful British Columbia
The landslide was caused by the presence of pre-existing tectonic structures (faults and shear zones) within the southwestern slope of Johnson Ridge.[17] The lower parts of the slide scar are underlain by felsite sheets (which may have failed first) while the upper parts of the slide scar are underlain by highly jointed Paleozoic greenstone beds.[18] Ongoing weathering and tectonic activity weakened the slide mass to the point where it had reached limiting equilibrium. Johnson Peak was the site of a previous smaller prehistoric rock-slide.[19]
Just what triggered the 1965 landslide remains unclear; the two so-called earthquakes were likely too small to trigger the slide[20] and thus the seismic events were more likely caused by the impact of the landslide masses on the opposite valley wall. Changes in groundwater condition, often a trigger for landslides, is not thought to have played a role in the Hope Slide as the slide occurred during a protracted period of sub-zero temperatures in the winter, though some have suggested that freezing of seepage exit points may have caused an increase in water pressure at the toe of the slide.[21]
The highway has since been rerouted around and over the base of the slide's debris field 55 metres above the original ground level on the other side of valley. Most of the massive scar on the mountain face remains bare rock, without significant growth of trees or other large vegetation. It is quite easily visible from aircraft passing overhead.
A view point on Highway 3 allows tourists to view the scar.
A four kilometre stretch of the prior routing lays disused to the north of the new highway alignment.
Prior avalanche[edit]
Prior to the landslide, a small avalanche had forced five people to stop a few miles southeast of the town of Hope, British Columbia—150 kilometres (93 mi) east of Vancouver—on a stretch of the Hope-Princeton Highway below Johnson Peak.[5]
Landslide[edit]
Two earthquakes were said to have been recorded in the general area of the slide.[6] One quake occurred at 3:56 am and the second at 6:58 am. The slide that obliterated the mountain's southwestern slope was discovered when members of the RCMP detachment at Hope BC were dispatched to what were first reported as a couple of small rock slides. The first news reports of the slide were from CHWK Radio in Chilliwack where morning news reporter Gerry Pash and later news director Edgar Wilson filed voice reports with Broadcast News and Canadian Press.
The slide completely displaced the water and mud in Outram Lake[7] below with incredible force, throwing it against the opposite side of the valley, wiping all vegetation and trees down to the bare rock, then splashed back up the original, now bare, slope before settling. Recent research[8] shows that these impacts against the opposite valley sides produced the seismic signatures interpreted as earthquakes.
The slide buried a 1957 yellow Chevy convertible[9] that had become stuck in the first slide, an Arrow Transfer oil tanker truck, and a loaded hay truck that had stopped behind the tanker[10] under a torrent of 47 million cubic metres of pulverized rock, mud, and debris 152.4 metres (500 ft) deep and 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) wide, which came down the 1,220-metre (4,000 ft) mountainside.[11]
Norman Stephanishin, the Arrow truck driver, had stopped behind the stuck convertible. Stephanishin, unable to turn his rig around on the narrow and icy road, tried to talk the four others into walking the five kilometres back to Sumallo Lodge. Unable to convince them, Stephanishin walked east to Sumallo Lodge to phone the Highways Dept.[12] In a short distance, Stephanishin flagged down a Greyhound Lines bus traveling to Vancouver[13] and persuaded the driver, David Hughes, to return with him to Sumallo Lodge. Hughes turned back and is credited with saving his passengers from a tragedy.[14]
Rescue workers from Hope and Princeton found the body of Thomas Starchuck, 39, of Aldergrove BC, driver of the hay truck. The body of Bernie Lloyd Beck, 27, of Penticton BC, driver of the convertible was also retrieved. Beck's passengers, Dennis George Arlitt, 23, of Penticton BC, and Mary Kalmakoff, 21, of Shoreacres BC, were never recovered. Their bodies remain entombed under the rock.[15]
British Columbia Highways Minister Phil Gaglardi attended the scene and directed the construction of a temporary tote road over the southern portion of the slide. In twenty-one days a bumpy route had been established over the slide.[16]
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Hope Rockslide | Van Life In Canada
The Hope Slide was the largest recorded landslide in Canada except for the similarly sized 2010 Mount Meager landslide.[1] It occurred in the morning hours of January 9, 1965 in the Nicolum Valley in the Cascade Mountains near Hope, British Columbia, and killed four people. The volume of rock involved in the landslide has been estimated at 47 million cubic metres... MORE INFO
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Hope Slide Memorial: Canada's Largest Landslide
This is the Hope Slide, a site where on the morning of January 9, 1965 an entire south face of a mountain came roaring down and onto the Hope-Princeton Highway, just 15 km east of Hope, British Columbia, Canada. Four cars were caught in this slide and four people died. Two people have never been found and are entombed under the estimated 47 million cubic meters of debris. The debris field is almost 2 miles long and about 285 feet deep. The slide obliterated a lake that was present in the valley.
This video was shot at a rest stop memorial that exists on top of the debris field.
It is the largest land slide recorded in Canadian history.
Hope BC Hope Slide Tourist Attraction
Hope Slide (Landslide) with directions by RSamson. Winter video. Hope, B.C., Canada
Quick drive out to Hope Slide; the largest Landslide in Canada. Never realized this before but every video posted has my transportation by motorcycle, 4x4, etc...this is my very first one where I took my car for transportation. (My dog wanted to come with me SO BADLY) And it sucks because the camera is focused on the windshield and the signs are not focused.
Never been here in the winter before and probably won't be again. I WILL return in the summer when the rocks and boulders give significance to the scene.
Abandoned part of Hwy 3 at Hope slide.
HOPE, B.C, CANADA.
Hope is a district municipality located at the confluence of the Fraser and Coquihalla rivers in the province of British Columbia, Canada. Hope is at the eastern end of both the Fraser Valley and the Lower Mainland region, and is at the southern end of the Fraser Canyon. To the east over the Cascade Mountains is the Interior region, beginning with the Similkameen Country on the farther side of the Allison Pass in Manning Park. Located 154 kilometres (96 mi) east of Vancouver, Hope is at the southern terminus of the Coquihalla Highway and the western terminus of the Crowsnest Highway, locally known as the Hope-Princeton (Highways 5 and 3, respectively), where they merge with the Trans-Canada Highway (Highway 1). Hope is at the eastern terminus of Highway 7. Hope is a member municipality of the Fraser Valley Regional District which provides certain municipal services to unincorporated settlements and rural areas.
The District of Hope includes Hope Townsite (the previous Town of Hope) and surrounding areas including the communities of Kawkawa Lake, Silver Creek, Flood, and Lake of the Woods.
The Hope Slide - Topple the Sky
The Hope Slide is the new project from Hinterland founders Michaela Galloway and John Lucas.
The Hope Slide is a Canadian band formed in 2008 in Vancouver. The Hope Slide is named after the Hope Slide, a rock slide that occurred early in the morning of January 9, 1965.The Hope Slide's self-titled debut album, released September 28, 2010 on Submerged Records, is something of a concept album befitting the band's chosen name. The songs deal with disasters and upheavals of all kinds, including the ill-fated Franklin Expedition (Passage), the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of 1911 (In Ashe), the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, and the impact of the Chernobyl disaster on the surrounding ecosystem (Red Forest).
Naturkatastrophe The Hope Slide – Der größte Erdrutsch in Kanada | The biggest landslide in Canada
► Natural disaster The Hope Slide – The biggest landslide in Canada - 01:
► Naturkatastrophe The Hope Slide – Der größte Erdrutsch (Bergsturz) in Kanada - 01:
In diesem Video werden euch Impressionen vom größten bisher in Kanada erfassten Erdrutsch präsentiert. Das Video zeigt die Ausmaße der Naturkatastrophe welche sich am 9. Januar 1965 ereignete und noch heute zu sehen sind. 18 km südöstlich von der Kleinstadt Hope (British Columbia, Kanada) entfernt löste damals in den Cascade Mountains ein Erdbeben diesen Bergrutsch (Bergsturtz) aus. Über 46 Millionen Kubikmeter Erde, Fels und Schnee verschütten auf einer Länge von 3 km binnen weniger Sekunden das Tal, sowie den kompletten Qutram Lake mit bis zu 70 Meter hohem Geröll. 4 Menschen wurden bei diesem bis dato schwersten Erdrutsch getötet, die komplette Landschaft hatte sich durch diesen Erdrutsch verändert, der Highway 3 musste geschlossen und in diesem Bereich verlegt werden.
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Cruising the Hope slide of 1965 & the Alexandria bridge
Back in 1965 the whole mountain side let go in the Nicolum Valley and covered the Hwy and killed 4 people burying them in their vehicles under 47 million cubic tons of crush rock.
The Alexandria bridge is 40 km passed hope on the Fraser canyon and crosses the Fraser river.
BC Trip The Hope Slide.
January, 1965 47 million tons of rock, trees and debris broke free from Johnsons Peak and fell down and covered 3 miles of the Hope Princeton Hwy 3 BC as well it totally displaced Outram Lake at the base of the mountain. Twitter @kellyotweets
The 1965 Hope Slide - October 16th 2015
Featuring: The 1965 Hope Slide
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Hope Slide - Zero Avenue to Peace Park
While riding east along the Crowsnest Highway (Hwy 3) in August 2014, TMH stops at the site of the biggest landslide in Canadian history.
Hope Slide Plane Crash Clip
Will be putting out a longer 4k tour in the future, but for now here is some footage of the 1966 albatross crash on Hope slide:
Filmed with a Phantom 4 Pro
Hope Slide Crowsnest Highway 3 BC
Crawling down Hope Slide loaded with 70,000lbs of wood chips, 8% for 8km ... Nov 28 2013, where's all the snow?