The Adventure Life with Steve Casimiro:
A Bad, Bad Week for Avalanches
Mourners at a candlelight vigil in Sparwood, B.C., which lost eight young men to slides.
By West Coast Editor Steve Casimiro
Seven
Canadian snowmobilers are dead and one is missing and
presumed dead after a series of avalanches hit their group in the
backcountry near Fernie, British Columbia, Sunday. Also on Sunday, a
snowmobiler died near Hart's Pass, Washington, and on Monday a
15-year-old Utah boy was killed snowmobiling in the Uinta Range. A Lake
Tahoe
skier is dead from a slide at Squaw Valley on Christmas Day. A Wilson,
Wyoming, man perished in a slide in-bounds at Jackson Hole on Saturday.
And Monday morning, with the resort closed for avalanche control work, an
avalanche crashed into Jackson’s mid-mountain Couloir restaurant,
causing severe damage and knocking workers about, including a patroller
who was partially buried. CONTINUE READING THIS STORY>>
The photo just says it all, it's a great photo....
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Posted by: Johan Es | January 30, 2009 at 05:53 AM