Missing Skier! — Colorado Front Range

Missing Skier! — Colorado Front Range


Trish Lehman went for a backcountry tour on Christmas Day (Dec. 25, 2006) and hasn’t been heard from since. She did not tell anyone where she was going, other than she was going out to ski. Her car has not been found. The most likely place she was headed was Cameron Pass area or Brainerd Lake area. (Other likely possibilities include Nordic trails around Frisco and Rocky Mountain National Park.)
Trish is about 5’ 5” and weighs about ~125 lbs.

Please forward this link to anyone you know who was in the Front Range on Christmas day.

See pictures…
http://www.coe.usu.edu/psyc/slehman/misc/index.htm

Car: 1999 Black Honda CRV

Coat: brown and black North Face shell or a Blue Patagonia Fleece

Pants: black Marmot soft-shell pants.

Pack: Light-blue Sherpani

Skis: probably Fischer backcountry with NNN BC bindings –also might have had K2 She’s Piste with Silver T3 boots.


If you saw Trish or her car on Christmas Day, please contact Steve Lehman 970-420-7745 (smlehman@gmail.com) or Detective Melissa Merkle of the Longmont Police Department 303-651-8555

Fugg, that sux +++++vibes+++++

this is such a horrible thing to hear.. bump.. hope she turns up..

Her car was found on Cameron Pass. The search is on.

Holy shit, I hope she's alright! ++++++ vibes ++++++

Hope she's okay! ++++ vibes++++++++++++

I hate to sound like an ass, but this shows that you should always explain where you are going to somebody. Remember that everyone.

I hope they find her, and I hope shes ok.

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I hope this turns out okay. ++++++++++++

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Originally Posted by leroy jenkins

blah blah blah... but this shows that you should always explain where you are going to somebody. Remember that everyone. blah blah blah.

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Yeah, you sound like an ass. Why don't you shut the fuck up and go offer advice somewhere else.

Damn. I was up at Cameron Pass on the 27th and I'm pretty sure I saw her vehicle in the parking lot. Only ran into male backcountry skiers that day. No evidence of any slides around the area. I really hope she is alright.

Why did she head out alone on Christmas day?

Oh man, I hope this turns out OK. This is the kind of thing that tugs at my gut. Julie heads out solo frequently with skating or XC gear.

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Originally Posted by SheRa

Why did she head out alone on Christmas day?

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To X-country ski.

Many vibes for Trish+++++
We spent New Years eve and day up on Cameron playing on some of the XC trails and only ran in a single couple up there.
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I hope there's a happy ending...prayers...



8 nights is a long time out.

Oh shit this is not good, especially with that second storm we received. I hope she gets out ok!

According to the Denver Post, the outcome is not good.
http://www.denverpost.com/ci_4936161

My thoughts to her friends and family.

Thats a real bummer. I wonder WTF happened?!? My thoughts to her friends and family. RIP. I really want to know what happened. Maybe she died of natural causes (i.e. heart attack or stroke while XC). Thats a real bummer. I go out all the time by myself. I obviously stay away from anything remotely dangerous when alone but there is no reason why someone can't go alone on a XC trail SheRa. Not every outing is a feat of mountaineering. There are tons of places one can safely go alone. However, this is an unfortunate reminder to all of us that we should always tell somebody where we are going.

:frown: RIP :frown:

++++++++++++++positive energy sent from hawai'i++++++++++++

:( Sad endings suck. Vibes.

Dammit, this is heart breaking.

Her husband was my graduate advisor and major professor.

A real bummer, at least friends and family will have closure.

I can't count the number of times I've x/c'ed alone, it is a real pleasure having the solitude, but shit does happen.

Hope there was no foul play, et cetera. RIP

Very sad and sobering...many prayers to those who loved her.

Sprite

Wow, total bummer.

++++++vibes+++++++ to her family and friends.

Sad news.

I hope it wasnt something that could have been avoided if she would have toldsomeone her destination.

I go solo frequently and have told taken to using a "virtual belay" via cell phone from friends.

http://archive.9news.com/acm_news.as...7-c589c01ca7bf

Searchers find body believed to be missing skier
posted by: Sara Gandy Web Producer
Created: 1/2/2007 12:15 PM MST - Updated: 1/2/2007 12:15 PM MST


FORT COLLINS (AP) - Searchers Tuesday found a body believed to be that of a woman missing for a week after she told her family she was going skiing in the Cameron Pass area, authorities said.

Larimer County sheriff's spokeswoman Eloise Campanella said the body was found on Montgomery Pass, where Trish Lehman, 40, of Longmont, was last seen Dec. 25. She had told her family earlier that day she was heading for the Montgomery Pass Trail.

A patrol deputy found Lehman's car Monday at the Zimmerman Lake Trailhead on Cameron Pass.

The search was suspended Monday afternoon due to avalanche danger. Campanella said about 15 searchers were working Tuesday on Montgomery Pass, where up to 8 inches of snow fell over the weekend.

Very sad to hear.

Really, really sad.

She fell into a creek and got wet. She tried to build a snowcave but it was not enough to warm her.


Missing skier dead
Longmont woman's body is discovered 150 feet from trail

Tricia Lehman, 40, was "an incredibly kind person," her professor said.

By Bill Scanlon, Rocky Mountain News

January 3, 2007

The body of a cross-country skier found in a rudimentary snow cave just 150 feet from a ski trail at Cameron Pass and a half-mile from a major highway has been identified as Tricia Lehman, whom friends describe as a budding academic superstar.

Search-and-rescue teams from Larimer County followed tracks off the main ski trail and came upon the 40-year-old woman's body, said Larimer County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Eloise Campanella.

Lehman, of Longmont, was last seen on Christmas Day going up the Montgomery Pass Trail shortly after she told friends she was going skiing.

Investigators found no obvious signs of injury and are tentatively suggesting that the woman may have become disoriented in the heavy snow and suffered hypothermia, Campanella said Tuesday.

Lehman didn't tell friends where she was going skiing, Campanella said.

Lehman's husband, who is separated from her and lives in Denver, went to Longmont on Dec. 30, realized that no snow had been shoveled and worried that she might be at any number of cross-country ski areas, Campanella said.

He reported his concerns to Longmont police, who put out a bulletin.

A couple saw the bulletin and told police they'd seen a woman matching Lehman's description on Christmas Day.

Larimer County sheriff's deputies and search-and-rescue teams were dispatched and found Lehman's car at Zimmerman Lake Trailhead on Cameron Pass on Monday. They searched the trails near the car but were stymied by an avalanche and later by nightfall.

They started again Tuesday. At 11 a.m., they saw some ski tracks that led off the trail.

"The tracks led right to the body," Campanella said. "There was a snow cave of sorts that she had apparently built."

There was about 6 to 8 inches of new snow in the area, Campanella said.

The academic education world lost a very bright light, say the people who knew Lehman at the University of Colorado School of Education, where she was a candidate for a doctorate.

"She is universally thought of as a shining star in the program," said Ed Wiley, her professor and academic adviser.

Lehman specialized in research in education methodology, with an eye toward a career in analyzing policy and testing systems to improve school performance.

Lehman "distinguished herself as just being an incredibly kind person," Wiley said.

Really sad, sad news...I think Iskibc and I drove right by where she was on the 27th, which makes me wish there was some way, any way, of knowing or sensing she was back in there... :( :(

Wow. Sad. Where do you see the part about the creek, TP?

Totally sad. Just awful when it happens to a rockstar cool person. +++Vibes to friends/family...+++

I really hate commenting on these stories but damn, this is just so sad. Condolences to her family and friends, and I include you two-planker. I hope you're alright.

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Originally Posted by RootSkier

Wow. Sad. Where do you see the part about the creek, TP?

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I heard some specific details from a friend, who spoke with her husband. He was there when she was brought out.

+++++++++vibes going out to her family and friends. It is very sad to hear another skier is lost to mother nature.

A lonely Cross Country tour on Christmas Day,
ends in tragedy.

I hope she is in a good place

Best wishes and condolences to her family and friends.

I felt I should post something? But I don't really know how to feel about this.

Was this a better way to go than dieing in a car wreck or many of the thousands of ways people are taken?

Or was this a scary sad way to go?

I was actually relived to hear that she was found on the trail and that this did not turn into a horrific abduction story

That is very sad. Very tragic and something so innocent that mahy of us do, falling or stepping into a creek.

My condolences to her family.