Revy avalanche

[Dano702]

Thoughts and prayers for everyone .

 

[MT boondocker]

A very, very sad day for the snowmobiling community.
My God bless those whom have left us, those that are hurt or injured, and
all the families of those envolved.
My thoughts and prayers for everyone.

 

[trevor_zr600]

my condolences to the familys who have lost loved ones it will be somehing that will always be burned in my mind

 

[Catman08]

Condolances to everybody involed.

 

[SpokaneRMK]

Thoughts and prayers to all those involved and we pray for all that search today, very sad deal.

 

[sniper25]

VG....Reeb is OK and Matt from SLEDJUNKIES as well, they weren't in the area at the time....I contacted them through text last night. I'm glad I opted out of this weekend and stayed home....so sad.

 

[Veedy]

Words cannot express how I feel at this time. Numb might be a good word to describe it. The Boost crew made the decision to stay away from that area from our experience the previous weekend. We kicked off some serious slabs below Turbo hill in the trees, an area called the hell hole. We measured the slabs, dug a pit to test the remaining snow, and could see perfectly preserved hoar on both layers. With the additional 80cm's of snow load on top, we knew the snowpack was extremely unstable. Turbo has not been climbed much this year, and we had observed one natural slide in there to the left hand side. It was a ticking time bomb. How do you tell 200 plus people this ? A couple climbs in the airport chutes showed that there was some instability but the steeper aspects had already naturally cleaned themselves. We then moved to the bull pen where we stayed in the narrow chutes that have less snow accumulation. The rest of the people moved to Turbo hill, we wanted to go, but better judgement told us to stay away. It wasnt until we hit the parking lot that we heard the news. It was about 45 minutes to dark, and we all felt utterly helpless. All of us sick to our stomaches worrying and wondering.
Juast to add, we were not part of this "event". Ozone Dave came up to us and tried to explain the "rules" and we all just walked away. We said it was pointless to participate with his direction. He was telling people where they had to climb, and it was retarded. We went and did our own thing, within our own comfort level. The climbs that we do every weekend, on familiar territory. Turbo hill is a North facing aspect which sees little to no sunshine, and was really a ticking time bomb. literally.

I'm just sick to my stamache today. Had a really hard time getting to sleep last night, and still feel numb today. I want to go and help today.

take a minute today to pray for the lost.

 

[Vertical-Extreme]

Words cannot express how I feel at this time. Numb might be a good word to describe it. The Boost crew made the decision to stay away from that area from our experience the previous weekend. We kicked off some serious slabs below Turbo hill in the trees, an area called the hell hole. We measured the slabs, dug a pit to test the remaining snow, and could see perfectly preserved hoar on both layers. With the additional 80cm's of snow load on top, we knew the snowpack was extremely unstable. Turbo has not been climbed much this year, and we had observed one natural slide in there to the left hand side. It was a ticking time bomb. How do you tell 200 plus people this ? A couple climbs in the airport chutes showed that there was some instability but the steeper aspects had already naturally cleaned themselves. We then moved to the bull pen where we stayed in the narrow chutes that have less snow accumulation. The rest of the people moved to Turbo hill, we wanted to go, but better judgement told us to stay away. It wasnt until we hit the parking lot that we heard the news. It was about 45 minutes to dark, and we all felt utterly helpless. All of us sick to our stomaches worrying and wondering.
Juast to add, we were not part of this "event". Ozone Dave came up to us and tried to explain the "rules" and we all just walked away. We said it was pointless to participate with his direction. He was telling people where they had to climb, and it was retarded. We went and did our own thing, within our own comfort level. The climbs that we do every weekend, on familiar territory. Turbo hill is a North facing aspect which sees little to no sunshine, and was really a ticking time bomb. literally.

I'm just sick to my stamache today. Had a really hard time getting to sleep last night, and still feel numb today. I want to go and help today.

take a minute today to pray for the lost.

thanks for the update Veedy

 

[summit-x]

Thanks veedy glad your ok.

 

[undergroundrmk]

Thoughts and Prayers! So sad cannot even imagine! Know what it feels like to feel so helpless!

 

[Catman08]

Words cannot express how I feel at this time. Numb might be a good word to describe it. The Boost crew made the decision to stay away from that area from our experience the previous weekend. We kicked off some serious slabs below Turbo hill in the trees, an area called the hell hole. We measured the slabs, dug a pit to test the remaining snow, and could see perfectly preserved hoar on both layers. With the additional 80cm's of snow load on top, we knew the snowpack was extremely unstable. Turbo has not been climbed much this year, and we had observed one natural slide in there to the left hand side. It was a ticking time bomb. How do you tell 200 plus people this ? A couple climbs in the airport chutes showed that there was some instability but the steeper aspects had already naturally cleaned themselves. We then moved to the bull pen where we stayed in the narrow chutes that have less snow accumulation. The rest of the people moved to Turbo hill, we wanted to go, but better judgement told us to stay away. It wasnt until we hit the parking lot that we heard the news. It was about 45 minutes to dark, and we all felt utterly helpless. All of us sick to our stomaches worrying and wondering.
Juast to add, we were not part of this "event". Ozone Dave came up to us and tried to explain the "rules" and we all just walked away. We said it was pointless to participate with his direction. He was telling people where they had to climb, and it was retarded. We went and did our own thing, within our own comfort level. The climbs that we do every weekend, on familiar territory. Turbo hill is a North facing aspect which sees little to no sunshine, and was really a ticking time bomb. literally.

I'm just sick to my stamache today. Had a really hard time getting to sleep last night, and still feel numb today. I want to go and help today.

take a minute today to pray for the lost.

Thanks and glad the crew is ok.

 

[RaggedEdgePerformance]

Thoughts and prayers are with all of those involved, and the families. This is a horrible tragedy.

 

[Flange]

Thanks for your informative post Veedy. Confirms what so many of us suspected. Glad to hear you guys made good decisions and stayed out of trouble. It too, am struggling with this. Devastating time for our sport and my thoughts and condolences are with everyone involved.

 

[XtremeSpeedShop]

Willie and Steven Peterson here, sled broke done minutes before we were going to leave and decided to stay home so we are ok, sorry to everyone that lost someone, sad day and we will pray for everyone involved!

 

[Boondocker94]

Rumours say...

Rumour has it that there could still be 40 people buried hope for the best people...

 

[Pinner]

Rumour has it that there could still be 40 people buried hope for the best people...

Keep it to yourself...helps absolutely nothing.

 

[sledlvr]

I agree ! too many people on here throwing around rumors, lets stick to known facts !!

 

[steveo10]

watch what you say on here. people from the news are following these kinds of threads trying to the inside report

 

[HIGHMARK]

Words cannot express how I feel at this time. Numb might be a good word to describe it. The Boost crew made the decision to stay away from that area from our experience the previous weekend. We kicked off some serious slabs below Turbo hill in the trees, an area called the hell hole. We measured the slabs, dug a pit to test the remaining snow, and could see perfectly preserved hoar on both layers. With the additional 80cm's of snow load on top, we knew the snowpack was extremely unstable. Turbo has not been climbed much this year, and we had observed one natural slide in there to the left hand side. It was a ticking time bomb. How do you tell 200 plus people this ? A couple climbs in the airport chutes showed that there was some instability but the steeper aspects had already naturally cleaned themselves. We then moved to the bull pen where we stayed in the narrow chutes that have less snow accumulation. The rest of the people moved to Turbo hill, we wanted to go, but better judgement told us to stay away. It wasnt until we hit the parking lot that we heard the news. It was about 45 minutes to dark, and we all felt utterly helpless. All of us sick to our stomaches worrying and wondering.
Juast to add, we were not part of this "event". Ozone Dave came up to us and tried to explain the "rules" and we all just walked away. We said it was pointless to participate with his direction. He was telling people where they had to climb, and it was retarded. We went and did our own thing, within our own comfort level. The climbs that we do every weekend, on familiar territory. Turbo hill is a North facing aspect which sees little to no sunshine, and was really a ticking time bomb. literally.

I'm just sick to my stamache today. Had a really hard time getting to sleep last night, and still feel numb today. I want to go and help today.

take a minute today to pray for the lost.

Why ANYONE would listen to that guy is beyond me. And I have thought that long before this tragedy.

 

[Comp 670]

Anybody have any news from on the hill today? Are they letting everybody help or is only S&R allowed up there? I can understand if they are not letting people up there.