mt baker slide

http://blog.oregonlive.com/breakingn...1_missing.html

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BELLINGHAM, Wash. -- Whatcom County sheriff's deputies are looking for a snowmobiler who is missing after an avalanche that killed another snowmobiler north of Mount Baker.

A deputy, George Ratayczak, says 20 volunteers have resumed the search.

The avalanche hit a group of five snowmobilers and swept them several hundred feet downhill in the Excelsior Pass area. It happened Tuesday on a slope at the 5,300-foot level in five to six feet of snow.

Rescuers found the body of a woman who was wearing an avalanche beacon. One person had a minor leg injury and two others were uninjured

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More here ~

http://www.king5.com/topstories/stor...P.1d39559.html

Female victim was wearing a beacon but her body was found an hour after the event???

WTF?

Male victim had recently acquired a beacon but it was unclear if he was wearing it?

Very sad.

People need to be smarter.

Body of 63 male recovered this afternoon. Bad way to start 2008. Be a good friend and make an effort to do more beacon practice. Any practice is good but get out and make it realistic, find a good safe slope and go through a rescue scenario. Adding some pressure to the practice will show you where you need some work. At MR we generally have a beacon out on the hill and if there is not one out already we can go bury one.
JF

fatal avy at Whistler too...two guys ducked ropes yesterday and triggered a slide that pulled them off a 45 meter cliff. one died, one seriosuly injured.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servl...TPStory/Sports

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Originally Posted by beaterd

Female victim was wearing a beacon but her body was found an hour after the event???

WTF?

Male victim had recently acquired a beacon but it was unclear if he was wearing it?

Very sad.

People need to be smarter.

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More importantly, the entire group was snared by the avalanche. I know exactly where they were, and there's no reason why it had to go down the way it did.

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Originally Posted by BakerBoy

More importantly, the entire group was snared by the avalanche. I know exactly where they were, and there's no reason why it had to go down the way it did.

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They shouldn't have been anywhere around that area regardless, Let's see recent rain, upside down snowpack, warming trend, and a barren slope with treed slopes around it. Anyways, I'll be out getting some tomorrow am.

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Originally Posted by whatcomridaz

They shouldn't have been anywhere around that area regardless, Let's see recent rain, upside down snowpack, warming trend, and a barren slope with treed slopes around it. Anyways, I'll be out getting some tomorrow am.

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Going sledding tomorrow (Sunday)? There's a few of us headed up Bear Paw I think...