Another Utah Avy Fatality

[Elitist]

Snowmobiler. Only buried ~8mins., Happened in the Monte Cristo area, East of the Ogden Valley on a slide path named Whiskey. Here's The Link

[Elitist]

The Piece on the Slide in Utah County is interesting too. Building Homes in slide paths.

[Red Baron]

Get this; the area where the slide hit was marked off as "for sale" along with three other lots next to it. One of them, with a big backyard view of Utah county was/is listed at 198k, just for the land!!! Better come with an avalauncher for that price.

On another note, I asked the mayor if they were going to change the zoning for that area to not allow homes in the runout, and he said "probably not"

[AltaPowderDaze]

http://www.avalanche.org/~uac/BRAIC/WhiskeyHill.htm



the crown:


i observed this same dirty wind deposited layer above facets in our local snowpack before the last storm. it is now burried aound 8-10' deep which i though was capped (bridged) well enough to no longer pose a threat. with the current warming problem drew hardesty told me not to count it out yet. any slide triggered on this layer around here will be massive and deadly. show it some respect and watch both your slope angles and temps from overnight and couple that with the daytime warming. get out early and be done before 11am. watch for no freeze nights.

[Trackhead]

The Piece on the Slide in Utah County is interesting too. Building Homes in slide paths.

Like my neighbor?

[Elitist]

Yeah, like your neighbor. Probably going to see more and more of this around here, as evil developments are sprouting up everywhere.

[Red Baron]

Like that one going in at the mouth of BCC by the gun club??? Man, it's WAY up there on the hill (above the bench) and the roads are going to be hideous....

[knowone]

Snowmobiler. Only buried ~8mins., Happened in the Monte Cristo area, East of the Ogden Valley on a slide path named Whiskey. Here's The Link

under for 8 minutes, was the cause of death from trauma?i couldnt find anything in the link .

[AltaPowderDaze]

under for 8 minutes, was the cause of death from trauma?i couldnt find anything in the link .

8 minutes is more than enough if he did not have an air pocket. if there was no trauma, an avalung would have made the difference in a case like this. it is hard to guess what the cause was but there are a lot of trees below.

[knowone]

8 minutes is more than enough if he did not have an air pocket. if there was no trauma, an avalung would have made the difference in a case like this. it is hard to guess what the cause was but there are a lot of trees below.

ya, thats what i figured ,i saw the dig site in the trees .. but a recovery in 8 minutes with no revival is a hard loss , a hard loss no mater the cause...
thanks for that............ and the rest of your obsrevations

[beater]

I do as much slednecking as I do skiing, and I'm extremely dissapointed at the victims total & utter ignorance of the obvious signs. The snowmobile community is behind the curve on the avalanche-safety awareness/education/practice factor...But they're making progress.

I'm extremely sorry for his family...I just hope that he at least had a good term policy so that his family is taken care of. To many times the sled heads that take big risks...have no life insurance and no sled insurance and get themselves killed leaving their family to deal with the emotional cost, as well as, picking up the financial pieces...

Oh according to a sledhead I know that knew him...he died from the trauma of being strained through the trees


Sad sad sad...