moto.racerx
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Re: Big Iron Slide @ Turbo March 13,2010
Steve Langevin, 38, said he thought the crowd was safe from the people he called "those crazy guys" because they were what seemed like kilometres away, but the wave of snow was so massive it easily reached them.
His friend, Pierre Beaudoin, 48, said the accident could have been prevented if people hadn't been high-marking.
"We were watching, a whole bunch of people were parking there and then they were watching the high-mark. That's why everybody was stopped there."
He said it was irresponsible for them to high-mark in those conditions, especially with a number of them going up at the same time.
"The minute one makes it to the top, oh, the next guy, I could do it, and then it becomes stupid. And it was stupid, they were starting to come from the side, one's coming down and one's going up."
"Then everything started going crazy."
Another survivor, from Fort St. John, in northern B.C., described a "big white wall of snow" coming down on his group of about 20 to 30 snowmobilers on the mountain in the Monashee Mountains, which are part of the Columbia Mountain range.
The man, who did not want to give his name, said they saw the slide coming and had only a few seconds to react.
He dove behind his snowmobile, and ended up partially buried. Members of his group dug him out.
Ervin McKeen, 62, from Nanton, Alta., was nearby when the avalanche occurred and he said there were about 150 people in the area where the snow came down.
Steve Langevin, 38, said he thought the crowd was safe from the people he called "those crazy guys" because they were what seemed like kilometres away, but the wave of snow was so massive it easily reached them.
His friend, Pierre Beaudoin, 48, said the accident could have been prevented if people hadn't been high-marking.
"We were watching, a whole bunch of people were parking there and then they were watching the high-mark. That's why everybody was stopped there."
He said it was irresponsible for them to high-mark in those conditions, especially with a number of them going up at the same time.
"The minute one makes it to the top, oh, the next guy, I could do it, and then it becomes stupid. And it was stupid, they were starting to come from the side, one's coming down and one's going up."
"Then everything started going crazy."
Another survivor, from Fort St. John, in northern B.C., described a "big white wall of snow" coming down on his group of about 20 to 30 snowmobilers on the mountain in the Monashee Mountains, which are part of the Columbia Mountain range.
The man, who did not want to give his name, said they saw the slide coming and had only a few seconds to react.
He dove behind his snowmobile, and ended up partially buried. Members of his group dug him out.
Ervin McKeen, 62, from Nanton, Alta., was nearby when the avalanche occurred and he said there were about 150 people in the area where the snow came down.
