Checking to see if this guys on Snowest?

[2Thetopp]

I found an old VHS tape from '98 at Mt. Baker where I watched this guy (riding alone) crest a hill and disappear, didn't look right to me. So I climbed the hill to investigate, only to see as I thought, he dropped into a crevasse. (Sorry about the picture quality) Just checking to see if he's still alive, riding, and on Snowest.








Lucky to be alive, I'll never forget him calling his wife on my phone, saying "when I get home things are going to be different"

 

[LoudHandle]

A sobering reminder to all of us, hopefully he learned from that day and has not repeated that mistake. I too used to ride alone a lot back when I was single and had no responsabilities. Things are different now with a family that depends on me, that's not to say that I don't cut loose occasionally, but more thought goes into every decision now.

Hope you find him and all is well!

 

[rp2000r]

Was it a Ski Doo?
Tom Shields?
NWGC?

 

[2Thetopp]

It was an Arctic Cat 600 Powder special, Hi Line choppers extracted two weeks later, bent tunnel, but rideable. Lucky to only drop about 50 feet, 12 ft. to the right it could have gone for hundreds.

 

[mustanggirl]

Not Tom Shields....

Tom fell in the crevasse on May 29, 1999. He was not riding alone, but was left up there overnight. He was found early the next day by Northwest Glacier Cruisers, Search and Rescue and Whatcom County Snowmobile Association. Thank you Friends!

Spending 13 hours 80 feet down in a crack! All the while hearing the glacier move and make strange cracking sounds. Burned everything burnable on the sled and backpack. Always be prepared!

Never a good idea to be up on the glacier, it may be a thrill to go to the TOP, but on the way, you are skipping freely over DEEP crevasses that will swallow you up in a moment!

Definitely should never ride alone!

Be safe and Let's ride!

 

[SNOBI-WAN-KENOBI]

Tom fell in the crevasse on May 29, 1999. He was not riding alone, but was left up there overnight. He was found early the next day by Northwest Glacier Cruisers, Search and Rescue and Whatcom County Snowmobile Association. Thank you Friends!

Spending 13 hours 80 feet down in a crack! All the while hearing the glacier move and make strange cracking sounds. Burned everything burnable on the sled and backpack. Always be prepared!

Never a good idea to be up on the glacier, it may be a thrill to go to the TOP, but on the way, you are skipping freely over DEEP crevasses that will swallow you up in a moment!

Definitely should never ride alone!

Be safe and Let's ride!

THIS is what you are crossing over at Mt.Baker:
https://www.google.com/search?q=cre...HH6L0iQKGh4DABw&ved=0CCwQsAQ&biw=1366&bih=664

 

[SNOBI-WAN-KENOBI]

I found an old VHS tape from '98 at Mt. Baker where I watched this guy (riding alone) crest a hill and disappear, didn't look right to me. So I climbed the hill to investigate, only to see as I thought, he dropped into a crevasse. (Sorry about the picture quality) Just checking to see if he's still alive, riding, and on Snowest.








Lucky to be alive, I'll never forget him calling his wife on my phone, saying "when I get home things are going to be different"

The "Force" was with HIM that day!!! LUCKY!!!!!!

 

[CoryHinsz]

LOL, I sell to Tom and he is going to take me up there the next time I am over on that side. At least he knows where not to go!

 

[JeepThing]

I remember that day Tina. I believe it is the first time I met Tom. The guy Marvin that went in two weeks earlier we found at 2-3 am and it was COLD up there!!!!!! The glacier is not a place to ride often. Have been riding Baker for 32 years seen a lot of bad things..

 

[rmk2112]

Tom fell in the crevasse on May 29, 1999. He was not riding alone, but was left up there overnight. He was found early the next day by Northwest Glacier Cruisers, Search and Rescue and Whatcom County Snowmobile Association. Thank you Friends!

Spending 13 hours 80 feet down in a crack! All the while hearing the glacier move and make strange cracking sounds. Burned everything burnable on the sled and backpack. Always be prepared!

Never a good idea to be up on the glacier, it may be a thrill to go to the TOP, but on the way, you are skipping freely over DEEP crevasses that will swallow you up in a moment!

Definitely should never ride alone!

Be safe and Let's ride!

So his buddies left him overnight and alone? Doesn't sound like very good company to me. If one of our crew was stranded 80 ft down, we'd be headed for the tree line to get wood for a fire, keeping a guy with him and a light on him. There has got to be more to this story, please elaborate.

 

[sundancemtlodge]

One of many

I have been to the top and road over most of those cracks it's not for averyone. We stay to the left after we lost or friends wife. She went down 20' the sled 30' it took 6 hours to get her out many trips to the trucks and back. search & rescue showed up 7 hours just in time to pull the sled up. made it back to the truck at 10pm that was a long day and not alot of fun. But Mt. Baker is a blast to ride and never have to go near the glacers. Sundance Mt. Lodge is in Priest Lake ID. you can ride your sled from our front door. I cook all your food and we have 10 bedrooms to stay in. all for $85 night per person. Tony 425-417-5252