LaBarge boys are ok
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That's great news. I also just got off the phone with Blake. They're hauling azz to get back to SLC. 
This thread is worthless without a story?
Glad to hear they are OK but what happened?
Glad to hear they are OK but what happened?
None taken...No offense too you either. Just seemed like a good thread without all the infor.
Geesh, got invited but flaked out for the long drive and had to ride local. Heart always goes out for a fallen rider. Hope the outcome is all good in the end.
Holly S h i t ...Blakey you got some splanin to do!!!!!!!! Glad everyone is going to be OK
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Rock Star
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should be interesting because..... They had no cell reception and hit the SPOT I believe to call for help. soon after word spread of a SPOT set off by our guys at 1:04 and no way to find out what had happened for us. MY heart sank at the thought of one of my friends going down in the hills again. On the phone w/Kim and ruby and Kim w/Shain and the end result, huge fear of what had happened. I'm thinking that a great bet for us is for someone to have a SAT phone at all times. Who carries one? Wow would it have helped us a month ago. thoughts? I hear the phone and rates arre good now. emergeny only type deal.
Heal up injured rider. Glad they had a bird to come get you with.
Heal up injured rider. Glad they had a bird to come get you with.
Jeff went off a 20ft cornice about 11 am, he went about 30 ft out, landed really hard, he rode it out for about 30 ft and fell off the side of the sled, he wanted to lay there for a bit to see if the pain would go away, after about 30 min he wanted to try to stand up, he made it about half way, and dropped to his knees in pain, we decided right then that we needed to get a helicopter in to get him out, my friend Lynn (slyrydr) had a spot with him and he hit the 911 button, the problem with it is that there is nothing that says the signal went out and that there is help on the way, Woof and I decided to head back to the trucks (20+ miles) to get help, we tried a few times on the way out to get cell service, we jumped in the truck and stopped at the first house, called 911 and told them we needed life flight and gave them the GPS coordinates, we waited at the truck for S&R to show up, and then Scott and I headed back up the mtn, lifeflight finally showed up around 4:30 or so and flew jeff to the hospital, he has a compression fracture in his lower back, he is hurting, but will be ok
yes I got pics of it all... will post them later
yes I got pics of it all... will post them later
I would like to find out what exactly spot did, they called lynns wife, but I don't know who really got help rolling.... was it our 911 call or did spot get it rolling.
Spot needs some way of letting you know the signal was received, maybe a small screen on it that can receive texts through the satellite, maybe it needs a little keyboard on it like a flip phone that can send texts.
I think a satellite phone would be the best thing to have.
Spot needs some way of letting you know the signal was received, maybe a small screen on it that can receive texts through the satellite, maybe it needs a little keyboard on it like a flip phone that can send texts.
I think a satellite phone would be the best thing to have.
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built4dtuff
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Thanks boys!!! Just got home...Sheeshh what a day. More deteails and pics when chris wakes up. My boy Jeff dropped around a 18-20 and landed in a track hard. That was at 11am. We think he left the hill on LIFE FLIGHT around 4ish. Compression Fracture is what they say. What a helpless feeling I had seeing one of my best friends lying there in excrutiating pain and I could do nothing
We had a great crew helping! Woofy and chris I think are the only ones one here but there was 6 of us total.
Im just tooo spent(emoitionaly and physicaly) to think of all the details...sorry more tomorrow. One hell of a grapevine we have though. Its amazing what a group of peeps we have on here and off...sledders kick ars ALMOST as kick arss as that LIFE FLIGHT pilot!!! wicked chit. Ca't wait to see the pics.
We had a great crew helping! Woofy and chris I think are the only ones one here but there was 6 of us total.
Im just tooo spent(emoitionaly and physicaly) to think of all the details...sorry more tomorrow. One hell of a grapevine we have though. Its amazing what a group of peeps we have on here and off...sledders kick ars ALMOST as kick arss as that LIFE FLIGHT pilot!!! wicked chit. Ca't wait to see the pics.
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built4dtuff
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Jeff went off a 20ft cornice about 11 am, he went about 30 ft out, landed really hard, he rode it out for about 30 ft and fell off the side of the sled, he wanted to lay there for a bit to see if the pain would go away, after about 30 min he wanted to try to stand up, he made it about half way, and dropped to his knees in pain, we decided right then that we needed to get a helicopter in to get him out, my friend Lynn (slyrydr) had a spot with him and he hit the 911 button, the problem with it is that there is nothing that says the signal went out and that there is help on the way, Woof and I decided to head back to the trucks (20+ miles) to get help, we tried a few times on the way out to get cell service, we jumped in the truck and stopped at the first house, called 911 and told them we needed life flight and gave them the GPS coordinates, we waited at the truck for S&R to show up, and then Scott and I headed back up the mtn, lifeflight finally showed up around 4:30 or so and flew jeff to the hospital, he has a compression fracture in his lower back, he is hurting, but will be ok
yes I got pics of it all... will post them later
You must be refreshed after sleeping all the way home
If anyone needs firewood to heat their home next winter I have GPS corridinants... Chris cut down 1/2 the freaken forrest making sure we were prepaired in case we spent the night...
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Rock Star
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Really sorry to hear about Jeff's back. The pain is terrible and I feel for him right now. We DO have great friends here Blake. People were getting ready to head there asap for you all. Sad for Jeff but our minds were racing and our hearts breaking thinking about what may have lead to the SPOT hit. The relief we felt hearing there was no avy was almost overwhelming. Prayers answered. glad you are all home and Jeff is safe in a hospital. get some rest!
All is good guys. Bluebird day, beautiful country, new friends and old going out for a Spring ride. We had all the tools, Beacons, GPS's, shovels, airbags, probes, Spot, first aid kits and I felt good riding up, snow kinda sucked but was loosening up the deeper we got in there. Then I headed to one of our latest fun holes with a great little cornice, we we all jumping around getting braver with every drop then Jeff did the big one, I saw him land and was looking away as he rolled to the ground, Cass was first one over to him and al he said was I am hurt, he tried to straighten up even stand but folded under the pain, we all knew it was over for him, we did give him a 1/2 hour to shake it off but he counld not do it. Lynn activated SPOT and Chris and I decided to head in for help not really knowing what help would come and to make sure Jeff would get the help he needed.
Just so you know that "SPOT" did do some things like contact Lynn's family but in reality Life Flight or Search and Rescue never did get a hit telling them to look for us as far as we know. It maybe be a good tool but really did spin up Lynn's family for sure. You see the only person I did get ahold of besides 911 was my wife and I kept it short so we could get back on the mountain so she was left with a lot of questions to answer for everyone else. She was contacted from people all over Utah trying to get info but she had none and could not get any because of our location. A VERY frustrating position for all of the familys for sure. My call to 911 ended with a emphatic yes for heli support there was now way Jeff was riding out on his own or even a toboggan. We did give 911 an exact GPS coordinate for our location, that is another thing if you do not have an I-phone like some luccky bastages bring a pen to write this down for the search teams.
There is no cell access in our mountains at all much less most of our state highways so like Chris said we had to come all the way to the truck which was around 23 miles and then drive the truck about 8 more miles till we found a phone. We did meet up with a couple of the local S&R guys in trucks but we told them were we were and they did say a sled crew was coming out so we headed back in to meet the chopper.
When we got back in which was about 3:00 I would guess Jeff hadn't moved since we left. We coverd him up good and started a fire and gathered a lot of wood, as we watched the sun creap to the horizon we knew it was going to be a cold long night if Lifeflight did not get there.
The whole time our big buddy Jeff was in big time pain, just for a bit to chew on guys, always keep some pain killers, ibuprophen or something with you on the hills, all I had was an Advil cold sinus pill and Jeff was in some serious pain enough that tears continued down his cheeks the entire time.
It was a great relief to see the chopper show up, then a four sleds, one was a snowboarder that led the S&R guys right to us. So we had 17 people in our group, the lifeflight crew, S&R guys that had doubled up with a med crew. It was crazy, and a very emotional experience to see them lift Jeff off to head for the hospital.
I did take a bunch of pictures but as you can tell it is very late and I have work tomorrow, will post my pics later. And BTW those Life-flight crews were amazing and the pilot was freaken awesome, he landing was careful, planned, precise. We are so lucky to have that available to our areas.
Scott
Just so you know that "SPOT" did do some things like contact Lynn's family but in reality Life Flight or Search and Rescue never did get a hit telling them to look for us as far as we know. It maybe be a good tool but really did spin up Lynn's family for sure. You see the only person I did get ahold of besides 911 was my wife and I kept it short so we could get back on the mountain so she was left with a lot of questions to answer for everyone else. She was contacted from people all over Utah trying to get info but she had none and could not get any because of our location. A VERY frustrating position for all of the familys for sure. My call to 911 ended with a emphatic yes for heli support there was now way Jeff was riding out on his own or even a toboggan. We did give 911 an exact GPS coordinate for our location, that is another thing if you do not have an I-phone like some luccky bastages bring a pen to write this down for the search teams.
There is no cell access in our mountains at all much less most of our state highways so like Chris said we had to come all the way to the truck which was around 23 miles and then drive the truck about 8 more miles till we found a phone. We did meet up with a couple of the local S&R guys in trucks but we told them were we were and they did say a sled crew was coming out so we headed back in to meet the chopper.
When we got back in which was about 3:00 I would guess Jeff hadn't moved since we left. We coverd him up good and started a fire and gathered a lot of wood, as we watched the sun creap to the horizon we knew it was going to be a cold long night if Lifeflight did not get there.
The whole time our big buddy Jeff was in big time pain, just for a bit to chew on guys, always keep some pain killers, ibuprophen or something with you on the hills, all I had was an Advil cold sinus pill and Jeff was in some serious pain enough that tears continued down his cheeks the entire time.
It was a great relief to see the chopper show up, then a four sleds, one was a snowboarder that led the S&R guys right to us. So we had 17 people in our group, the lifeflight crew, S&R guys that had doubled up with a med crew. It was crazy, and a very emotional experience to see them lift Jeff off to head for the hospital.
I did take a bunch of pictures but as you can tell it is very late and I have work tomorrow, will post my pics later. And BTW those Life-flight crews were amazing and the pilot was freaken awesome, he landing was careful, planned, precise. We are so lucky to have that available to our areas.
Scott
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So sorry to hear about the accident, but also releived that they got him off the mountain and that he is now in good hands.
Hope all ends up well and that he is able to get back to normal quickly!
Mike
Hope all ends up well and that he is able to get back to normal quickly!
Mike
That is too bad, I know his pain as I suffered the same injury several years back. One word of advice, take it easy and listen to the docs. I had to give up my hobbies for a while but now I am good as new. Good luck on a fast recovery man...
the Spot worked
after getting home and going over events with wife and sons, this is what i understand......i activated my Spot about 11:30 or so, used the 911 button.....Spot contacted my family, but of course had no specfic information, just an emergency activation in a remote spot in wyoming....they also contacted ground based emergency services, in this case lincoln county, who began to dispatch ground rescue (snowmobiles and ambulances to the trail head)....Spot does not normally call for a life flight helicopter until they have more to go on, mainly relying on the ground rescue to do that.....but they do keep on top of the situation, my family had several calls from Spot keeping them undated on information as it became available to them....the life flight was dispatched as a result of duner and woof riding out to a phone, but the ground rescue would have been there as a result of Spot.....there was also some confusion (or seems so at this point) at the search and rescue headquarters, because of a helicopter rescue of a skier with a broken leg, this being reported to woofs' wife and relayed to mine....but Spot stayed on just my situation, and insisted that s&r continue efforts toward us, somewhere about this time, duner was able to get hold of s&r and confirm the need for a lifeflight....Spot had contacted both s&r and my family with the exact location of the accident, and my family had it located on google earth right to nuts....so all told, the Spot worked as advertized, but because we have no feedback as to whether the Spot message is actually getting to anyone, we sent riders back for the phone....undoubtedly, there was overlapping, and sometimes conflicting information because of this....anyone in a real-time, ongoing situation knows that their part of the puzzle can seem confusing, because no one has the whole picture.....but the bottom line is, we got jeff out, he's ok, and lots of thanks to life-flight, lincoln county, and my fellow sledders for doing a great job in a difficult situation..........as a lesson learned for me, if i should ever activate my Spot again, i would have the people going out for phone service also call my wife as her and my sons did a lot of phone calling and had a lot of heartache for 5 hours until they found out i was ok....
after getting home and going over events with wife and sons, this is what i understand......i activated my Spot about 11:30 or so, used the 911 button.....Spot contacted my family, but of course had no specfic information, just an emergency activation in a remote spot in wyoming....they also contacted ground based emergency services, in this case lincoln county, who began to dispatch ground rescue (snowmobiles and ambulances to the trail head)....Spot does not normally call for a life flight helicopter until they have more to go on, mainly relying on the ground rescue to do that.....but they do keep on top of the situation, my family had several calls from Spot keeping them undated on information as it became available to them....the life flight was dispatched as a result of duner and woof riding out to a phone, but the ground rescue would have been there as a result of Spot.....there was also some confusion (or seems so at this point) at the search and rescue headquarters, because of a helicopter rescue of a skier with a broken leg, this being reported to woofs' wife and relayed to mine....but Spot stayed on just my situation, and insisted that s&r continue efforts toward us, somewhere about this time, duner was able to get hold of s&r and confirm the need for a lifeflight....Spot had contacted both s&r and my family with the exact location of the accident, and my family had it located on google earth right to nuts....so all told, the Spot worked as advertized, but because we have no feedback as to whether the Spot message is actually getting to anyone, we sent riders back for the phone....undoubtedly, there was overlapping, and sometimes conflicting information because of this....anyone in a real-time, ongoing situation knows that their part of the puzzle can seem confusing, because no one has the whole picture.....but the bottom line is, we got jeff out, he's ok, and lots of thanks to life-flight, lincoln county, and my fellow sledders for doing a great job in a difficult situation..........as a lesson learned for me, if i should ever activate my Spot again, i would have the people going out for phone service also call my wife as her and my sons did a lot of phone calling and had a lot of heartache for 5 hours until they found out i was ok....
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Just a quick note about this. Spot will let you know a signal has been transmitted successfully but you have to be watching the green LEDS closely. When a successful transmition has been made the LEDS will go constant green for 5 seconds instead of there normal blinking pattern
Just an FYI...
Very glad Jeff is going to be OK and that he had a group of folks like you all around to make sure of that!
So now we know the Utah and Wyoming S&R pilots ... geuss we better start riding Idaho!
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Rock Star
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first, glad he's ok and hope he makes a full recovery.
I just talked to a client today who races the Baja 1000. talked about the SPOT etc. He says he now carries a SAT phone for the very reasons you wrote of. that way the WHOLE picture is immediately clear. The SPOT does its job. It would result in a rescue. but the confusion and extra time in a life flight situation would be better addressed with a phone. I am going to look into one. cost, rates etc. Client deactivates his when not racing. so.... we'll see. It may be cheaper than we think.
I just talked to a client today who races the Baja 1000. talked about the SPOT etc. He says he now carries a SAT phone for the very reasons you wrote of. that way the WHOLE picture is immediately clear. The SPOT does its job. It would result in a rescue. but the confusion and extra time in a life flight situation would be better addressed with a phone. I am going to look into one. cost, rates etc. Client deactivates his when not racing. so.... we'll see. It may be cheaper than we think.
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