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May your friend RIP! Thought and prayers to his family and friends!
May your friend RIP! Thought and prayers to his family and friends!
Bad news fellas, another Avy death.
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may your friend RIP.my condolences to you, your friend, the group with him on that day, & most of all the family he never got home too.
RIP
RIP
sorry about your buddy, Ive been there and it sucks. I no longer ride big hills its just not worth it to me. somehow I hope everyone out there rides a little safer everytime we have a fallen brother. 
Very sorry for your loss, ride safe everyone!!!!!!!!!
thoughts and prayers are with you and his family
play hard, play safe, play smart
play hard, play safe, play smart
Article from elkford's trail website
A 23-year-old snowmobiler is dead following an avalanche in the small East Kootenay town of Elkford on Friday — the seventh such fatality in B.C. this season.
The man was riding with nine others in the KoKo Claims area, when an avalanche struck at about 4 p.m., killing one of the group, paramedic Lynn Bobak said.
Elkford RCMP said the man had been in a bowl area known as the Tundra, and triggered the avalanche on himself.
“Rescuers on scene were able to locate the male within minutes using avalanche transceivers, but then struggled to remove him as he was found buried approximately two metres beneath the snow and trapped under his snowmobile,” police said in a prepared release.
The man, whose name was not released, was flown to a medical clinic in Elkford, where he later died.
Bobak said avalanche have been especially bad this year.
“It’s absolutely horrible,” she said. “There’s no base to the snow.”
Elkford, with a population of about 2,670, has an active snowmobile association and ATV club and prides itself on its many trails throughout the Elk Valley.
It is one of only two communities in B.C. where it is legal, with a permit issued by RCMP, to ride a snowmobile from a home or hotel in town directly onto the trails.
Mayor Dean McKerracher said the KoKo Claims areas has a “bunch of big bowls” and is popular among snowmobilers.
“Avalanches are always a risk in the backcountry and these guys know that,” he said.
conditions
So far this season, there have been seven avalanche fatalities in B.C. — including one on New Year’s Day in an out-of-bounds area at Whistler and another involving two snowmobilers near 100 Mile House — and three in Alberta.
Two of the more recent deaths occurred earlier this year near Midway and Grand Forks.
The Canadian Avalanche Association listed the avalanche warning for the Kootenay/Boundary region as considerable on Friday, and said the risk of rider-triggered avalanche activity is expected to increase as the new snow settles into a slab.
Avalanche forecasters also issued a special warning about hazardous conditions in B.C.’s North Shore mountains, all the way from Howe Sound to the Coquihalla summit.
Backcountry users should be extra cautious in the region over the weekend, due to an unusually unstable snowpack creating a “critical” situation, according to the Canadian Avalanche Association.
This article has lots of truth in it, but the avy actually happpenned at around 2:30, they did locate him quickly and worked hard to free him from under the machine, but he was not breathing and apperantly they didnt get a breath out of him. Everything that could be done was, I want to thank everyone who tried to save my best friend. Mike
A 23-year-old snowmobiler is dead following an avalanche in the small East Kootenay town of Elkford on Friday — the seventh such fatality in B.C. this season.
The man was riding with nine others in the KoKo Claims area, when an avalanche struck at about 4 p.m., killing one of the group, paramedic Lynn Bobak said.
Elkford RCMP said the man had been in a bowl area known as the Tundra, and triggered the avalanche on himself.
“Rescuers on scene were able to locate the male within minutes using avalanche transceivers, but then struggled to remove him as he was found buried approximately two metres beneath the snow and trapped under his snowmobile,” police said in a prepared release.
The man, whose name was not released, was flown to a medical clinic in Elkford, where he later died.
Bobak said avalanche have been especially bad this year.
“It’s absolutely horrible,” she said. “There’s no base to the snow.”
Elkford, with a population of about 2,670, has an active snowmobile association and ATV club and prides itself on its many trails throughout the Elk Valley.
It is one of only two communities in B.C. where it is legal, with a permit issued by RCMP, to ride a snowmobile from a home or hotel in town directly onto the trails.
Mayor Dean McKerracher said the KoKo Claims areas has a “bunch of big bowls” and is popular among snowmobilers.
“Avalanches are always a risk in the backcountry and these guys know that,” he said.
conditions
So far this season, there have been seven avalanche fatalities in B.C. — including one on New Year’s Day in an out-of-bounds area at Whistler and another involving two snowmobilers near 100 Mile House — and three in Alberta.
Two of the more recent deaths occurred earlier this year near Midway and Grand Forks.
The Canadian Avalanche Association listed the avalanche warning for the Kootenay/Boundary region as considerable on Friday, and said the risk of rider-triggered avalanche activity is expected to increase as the new snow settles into a slab.
Avalanche forecasters also issued a special warning about hazardous conditions in B.C.’s North Shore mountains, all the way from Howe Sound to the Coquihalla summit.
Backcountry users should be extra cautious in the region over the weekend, due to an unusually unstable snowpack creating a “critical” situation, according to the Canadian Avalanche Association.
This article has lots of truth in it, but the avy actually happpenned at around 2:30, they did locate him quickly and worked hard to free him from under the machine, but he was not breathing and apperantly they didnt get a breath out of him. Everything that could be done was, I want to thank everyone who tried to save my best friend. Mike
mike,i know what your going through,my condolences to the family,please post a thread if there is anything we could do for the family.
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