Jackson Avy -JHMR employee - not sure but yesterday? Maggot?

[LaramieSkiBum]

JACKSON - A skier was rescued after suffering serious injuries in a backcountry avalanche in Grand Teton National Park.

Andy Bergin, 24, of Jackson, sustained multiple serious injuries in Monday's avalanche, which swept him over rocks and about 1,000 feet down the slope in an area called the Northwest Passage.

Park rangers and Jackson Hole Mountain Resort ski patrollers provided medical care on the scene until a helicopter arrived to take Bergin to St. John's Medical Center in Jackson.

Bergin was skiing with friends when the avalanche occurred. He worked at Jackson Hole.

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[LaramieSkiBum]

bump....surely you jhole mags know whats up

[ScottG]

News out today:

Slide slams skier
24-year-old says skiing alone was a mistake.

By Rebecca Huntington

As Andy Bergin tried to save his life by swimming through rushing snow, a Granite Canyon avalanche raked him over rocky terrain with such force he lost his backpack, jacket and shirt.

After tumbling for well over a thousand feet, the 24-year-old skier could no longer move his arms once the avalanche gave up its grip and he came to a rest on top of the snow.

"It was windy as hell, and I'm sitting there with no shirt," Bergin said of the incident that happened Monday. Although his shirt had miraculously landed in his lap, he couldn't lift his arms to put it on. He started hollering for help.

Bergin recounted the slide Tuesday from a hospital bed at St. John's Medical Center, where he was in stable condition despite dislocating both shoulders and a knee and breaking ribs, a clavicle and a humerus.

The Massachusetts native, who moved to Jackson four winters ago to ski, had already had a stream of visitors. An affable guy, Bergin would be easy to spot in a crowd with his afro-size tangle of black hair.

Bergin is the first to admit he erred Monday by deciding to ski alone in backcountry terrain that is extremely technical and often avalanche-prone. He hopes others might learn from his experience, he said Tuesday.

In addition to stressing the importance of skiing with friends, Bergin emphasized that "low" avalanche hazard does not mean "no" risk and that hazards can change daily husky latin women lessons he learned the hard way.

Bergin also thanked the skiers, patrolmen and rangers who quickly got him to the hospital. "They did a pretty unbelievable job because I was pretty messed up," he said.

Bergin had originally planned to ski with a friend into Granite Canyon, backcountry terrain accessible from Jackson Hole Mountain Resort. Bergin, who works as a grill cook at the resort's Casper Restaurant, said a friend decided not to go at the last minute, so he chose to go alone, he said.

He knew he wanted to ski the Northwest Passage, an intricate maze of chutes and cliffs next to Endless Couloir. He headed for the more open husky latin women though still technical husky latin women route through the cliffs that dumps into Endless Couloir. He had skied the route two days earlier and witnessed no sign of avalanche activity.





No island of safety

As he approached the entrance to the chute, he noticed the ground had been scoured by wind. At first he took it as a good sign that winds had carried off loose snow. Average wind speeds of 28 mph and maximum wind gusts of 52 mph had been documented in the past 24 hours, according to the Bridger-Teton National Forest Avalanche Center, which issues daily backcountry avalanche hazard and weather forecasts. Bergin checks that forecast each morning by calling the avalanche telephone line at 733-2664.

On Monday, the forecast rated avalanche danger as "low" but warned that pockets of surface slabs 14 inches in depth could be triggered on northerly aspects on very steep shaded terrain. The Northwest Passage fits that description.

Jim Springer, an avalanche technician at the center, warned Tuesday against applying the forecast to all types of terrain. The forecasts give general predictions, which don't necessarily apply to steep, cliff-lined terrain, which can have unique wind-loading patterns, he said.

"If people are going into extreme, expert terrain, we expect them to make their own evaluation," he said. "They are going into places that are beyond the scope of the general avalanche advisory."

Expert terrain also has different hazards. In cliffy areas, a small slide can knock a skier off his stance and over cliffs, he said. Springer had not examined Bergin's slide path, which is difficult to reach, he said.

As soon as Bergin dropped below the wind-scoured flats into the trees above Northwest Passage, he began to rethink his decision, noticing the snow was sugary and surprisingly deep, which increased the risk.

"Right when I thought, 'Oh, these conditions are pretty dangerous,' I turned around and there was a crown, and I was in an avalanche," he said. "I should have had a better plan. I didn't have an island of safety."

He estimated the crown, or fracture line at the top of the slide, to be a foot or so deep. He immediately began swimming to the right side of the chute to try to avoid a cliff band to the left. He may have dislocated his right shoulder as he grabbed for two trees and "got ripped right off," he said. With adrenalin pumping, he continued to swim even as both shoulders dislocated, he said.

Surrounded by powder, he could see nothing but light and dark, light and dark as he tumbled. His head and body hit rocks. He felt himself go over two small cliff bands, maybe 10 feet high, he said.

When he finally stopped, he said, "I was bleeding everywhere."

Jackson skier Craig Benjamin, 25, and two friends were skiing a treed island in between Endless and Mile Long couloirs when they heard Bergin calling for help. They stopped to listen and determined that Bergin was above them near the Northwest Passage.

"It's a gnarly area," Benjamin said of the passage.

[ScottG]

That dude is seriously lucky.

Solo skiing in the Northwest Passage?
He's lucky he was conscious and could yell for help.
Definitely dead if it wasn't for that.

[gforce]

Gnarly account of a truly heinous place to get slid. Healing vibes sent.

[spanky]

In addition to stressing the importance of skiing with friends, Bergin emphasized that "low" avalanche hazard does not mean "no" risk and that hazards can change daily husky latin women lessons he learned the hard way.

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He knew he wanted to ski the Northwest Passage, an intricate maze of chutes and cliffs next to Endless Couloir. He headed for the more open husky latin women though still technical husky latin women route through the cliffs that dumps into Endless Couloir. He had skied the route two days earlier and witnessed no sign of avalanche activity.

Lost his pack, jacket and shirt? Must've been the Husky Latin Women. All joking aside, the guy's lucky to be alive.

[ScottG]

WTF is up with the HUSKY LATIN WOMEN??

is that some kind of virus?? I saw a similar thing a month or two ago. All I did was cut and paste.
Is ONS obsessed? has he been subliminally encouraging maggots to want husky latin women???

I pasted from JH Daily News - would they embed husky latin women??

http://www.tetongravity.com/forums/s...ky+latin+women

[ScottG]

In addition to stressing the importance of skiing with friends, Bergin emphasized that "low" avalanche hazard does not mean "no" risk and that hazards can change daily husky latin women lessons he learned the hard way.


He knew he wanted to ski the Northwest Passage, an intricate maze of chutes and cliffs next to Endless Couloir. He headed for the more open husky latin women though still technical husky latin women route through the cliffs that dumps into Endless Couloir.

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Alrighty - I just tested this by copying from here:
http://www.jacksonholenews.com/
using a different computer

when I paste it to TGR the latin women appear.
If I paste the same thing to MS Word, there are no latin women.

I think the HUSKY LATIN WOMEN live inside the TGR forum.
Does anyone have a Virtual Reality kit that I could use to find these ladies??

[spanky]

I figured out the "Husky Latin Women" mystery.

Take a look at the HTML source code of this URL: http://www.jacksonholenews.com/News.html

Any place there is ­ in the HTML, it gets replaced by "Husky Latin Women" once it is posted on TGR.

Edit: The HTML code "­" is a "Soft Hyphen"

[Red Baron]

from google:

­ is supposed to represent unicode character 173, which is, indeed a soft hyphen. The soft hyphen is used to indicate a place that a word can be broken if it's near the end of a line.

It's not supposed to appear anywhere, it's more for formatting things than anything else...

However, I bet someone funny put a line in this version of vBulletin that translates it to Husky Latin Women, that's all.

Nice catch, Spanky!

[Free Range Lobster]

However, I bet someone funny put a line in this version of vBulletin that translates it to Husky Latin Women, that's all.

Seems Owens is the guilty party.
Can't find anything about it anywhere else.

[frozenwater]

Craig Benjamin, one of the skiers that found the victim works part time for TGR. He said he could here Bergins screams the entire time the slide carried him.

Granite Canyon is a bit spooky right now in my opinion. This makes what, three avy's with victims in there in recent weeks?

Way to many people go in there, and the only precaution they take is "gut feelings".

[elevens]

I'm glad his safe and alive. The NP is as hairy as it gets in the backcountry.

It's been a tough year and I sometimes find myself shaking my head when I read accounts of this years avy's.

Remember the rules of bc travel -
1. Never ski alone
2. Always know the slopes past activity & history
3. Check the local Avy forcast
4. Dig a pit before you ski
5. Have a safety route planned out
6. Let others know where you will be skiing and when you plan to return
7. And don't be afraid to turn around - rather live to ski another day than die skiing.

Be safe everyone

[ScottG]

I'm glad his safe and alive. The NP is as hairy as it gets in the backcountry.

It's been a tough year and I sometimes find myself shaking my head when I read accounts of this years avy's.

Remember the rules of bc travel -
1. Never ski alone
2. Always know the slopes past activity & history
3. Check the local Avy forcast
4. Dig a pit before you ski
5. Have a safety route planned out
6. Let others know where you will be skiing and when you plan to return
7. And don't be afraid to turn around - rather live to ski another day than die skiing.

Be safe everyone

#8 Give props and offerings to HUSKY LATIN WOMEN so that Ullr will give you safe passage