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frock
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I just got home from recovering the body of the fella that was buried in Hasler yesterday and need to share a few things with you guys. This is what I've learned happened yesterday according to Search and Rescue and the RCMP as well as what happened today when we were in there.
There was 14 in the group, made up of adults and kids. 5 were buried, 4 were rescued and are OK. This gentleman was not so lucky. They dug him out and tried to revive with CPR. They had to leave him because they left 4 or 5 sleds buried in there. This group was outfitted with everything that you should have when mountain riding, from what I could see. They had beacons, shovels, probes and he was wearing an ABS avalanche pack. Don't know how proficient they were at using these things, but I think they must have been because they got 4 out alive.
The coroner and one of the policeman brought the pack down to the police station after she examined him and we tested the pack. It worked fine. It appears he never had a chance to activate it. The area they were in was a bad, bad terrain trap with very little room between the bottom of the hill and thick trees. The face is very steep and if he wasn't watching the hill when it let go, he never had a chance to deploy the pack because the slide would have been on them in a split second.
The slide occured in 2 side by side slopes. He was buried in the upper slide and it looked like there was 10 to 12 feet of snow piled against the trees. The lower slide was much bigger and was close to 30 feet deep in the creek draw.
Sorry about this being so long winded, but I have to unload and this is the place for this. 2 of the kids in the group were his, one of them was buried. Brings a tear every time I think of this. He was someones Son, someones Husband and someones Daddy and he's gone.
This was the last place to climb on the way out, after this it's a trail through the trees till you hit the road then the trucks. You can have all the gear and know how to use it and still get into trouble folks. Please be careful out there cause there are a lot of people who need you to come home.
There was 14 in the group, made up of adults and kids. 5 were buried, 4 were rescued and are OK. This gentleman was not so lucky. They dug him out and tried to revive with CPR. They had to leave him because they left 4 or 5 sleds buried in there. This group was outfitted with everything that you should have when mountain riding, from what I could see. They had beacons, shovels, probes and he was wearing an ABS avalanche pack. Don't know how proficient they were at using these things, but I think they must have been because they got 4 out alive.
The coroner and one of the policeman brought the pack down to the police station after she examined him and we tested the pack. It worked fine. It appears he never had a chance to activate it. The area they were in was a bad, bad terrain trap with very little room between the bottom of the hill and thick trees. The face is very steep and if he wasn't watching the hill when it let go, he never had a chance to deploy the pack because the slide would have been on them in a split second.
The slide occured in 2 side by side slopes. He was buried in the upper slide and it looked like there was 10 to 12 feet of snow piled against the trees. The lower slide was much bigger and was close to 30 feet deep in the creek draw.
Sorry about this being so long winded, but I have to unload and this is the place for this. 2 of the kids in the group were his, one of them was buried. Brings a tear every time I think of this. He was someones Son, someones Husband and someones Daddy and he's gone.
This was the last place to climb on the way out, after this it's a trail through the trees till you hit the road then the trucks. You can have all the gear and know how to use it and still get into trouble folks. Please be careful out there cause there are a lot of people who need you to come home.
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