Read this. another avy victim
THIS IS A POST OFF SNOWEST. THIS IS NOT MY POST. THIS HAPPENED TODAY
make sure you guys are paying attention
Kelly
Went sleding to day with 6 in our group here in Grand Forks BC. Picture perfect day, untouched trails up to an untouched bowl. We dug a big pit, and everything seemed stable. One of my buds does a pull about 800 feet up and gets onto this bench. I follow, then my other freind (Dave Brussou) comes up and joins us.We are now sitting half way up the bowl on this bench that we've sat on many times before. My friends agg me on and get me to go out this chute. I go out get a little air and land on a little tree ( stuck but safe). My other freind Bruce tries to go out a little easier way and as he was nearing the top half the friggen mountain gives away,at least a metre slab X 6-7-- feet!
I watch as buddy Bruce surfs it out grabs a tree and luckily stays on top of the avy. I look down and theres Dave putting along( I can't beleive he didn't see it or maybe he didn't think it was going that fast cause he could have pinned it out of the way. He looked up and the avy burried him and I lost site of him instantly. I grab my pack and get down there on my arse as fast as I praying another one doesn't break. I pull out my beacon where I last seen him and NO beeping at all! My freinds at the bottom of the hill (1500' down) get a signal. I slide on my arse again and locate the strongest signal quickly. We found him under a metre and a half (5') and he was a gonner. To much trauma on the way down. After we dig him right out, gather up some sleds (except for mine which was 2000" feet straight up) We decided to make use of that huge back portion of the tunnel on Bruce's new xp and tied our dead buddy on and bring him down to the hospital.The doctor said we did the right thing by bringing him down, we were1 hour and a half bytruck and trails away from town. There were no police around town to tell Daves wife so we all went over and to her house to tell the bad news.
I found out later the cops were all out at another avy close by up the Cristian valley, I havn't heard the ooutcome of that yet. I also just heard that there was a big slide right at the BIG White ski hill (Within bounds) which is also very close.
Ride safe peeps! Ken
THIS IS A POST OFF SNOWEST. THIS IS NOT MY POST. THIS HAPPENED TODAY
make sure you guys are paying attention
Kelly
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