sad day...anybody have a name yet?
http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_24825484/one-dies-avalanche-east-steamboat-springs
http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_24825484/one-dies-avalanche-east-steamboat-springs
Snowmobile fatality in Steamboat Avalanche
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http://avalanche.state.co.us/caic/acc/acc_report.php?accfm=rep&acc_id=513
"CAIC staff members will investigate the site on 1/1."
"CAIC staff members will investigate the site on 1/1."
Please guys don't let your quest for untracked snow cloud your judgement. If you don't know how to assess the conditions or terrain please take an avy class.
That's at the extreme east end of the range, near Rand, and not far from Vagabond ranch. It's a big scary looking peak. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkview_Mountain Condolences to friends and family.
It's actually more common for the most experienced and schooled of us to be taken by avalanche. No amount of experience and avy schooling can account for you being in the wrong place at the wrong time. You can ride a mountain a hundred times with no incident, then on the 101'st time is when it catches you off guard. Learn to watch the conditions and measure the risk but don't think that you can ever really mitigate the danger. It's when you think your above being caught that fate catches up with you. It's shown time and again, "experts" are the ones most likely to fall.
It's actually more common for the most experienced and schooled of us to be taken by avalanche. No amount of experience and avy schooling can account for you being in the wrong place at the wrong time. You can ride a mountain a hundred times with no incident, then on the 101'st time is when it catches you off guard. Learn to watch the conditions and measure the risk but don't think that you can ever really mitigate the danger. It's when you think your above being caught that fate catches up with you. It's shown time and again, "experts" are the ones most likely to fall.
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mt.aero
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Yeah, it did happened pretty far from Steamboat. The Rabbit Ears Range by Willow Creek Pass is a different riding area than the Rabbit Ears Pass riding area which is in the Gore and Park Range. Oddly enough, the Rabbit Ears Peak is in the Park Range, not the Rabbit Ears Range. Muddy Pass is the line between the ranges. Some of the news stories have it wrong... there is no such thing as the Rabbit Ears Pass Range.
My sincere condolences to his family and loved ones.
My sincere condolences to his family and loved ones.
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seth25
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Another Snowmobile Fatality
http://www.denverpost.com/weatherne...wmobile-accident-north-routt-county-new-years
Not good. Anyone know details here?
http://www.denverpost.com/weatherne...wmobile-accident-north-routt-county-new-years
Not good. Anyone know details here?
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They say the fatality occured at 12,301 ft. The very tip top of Parkview peak is 12,313 ft. If that's the case then they were high marking to the tip top of that peak. That is not the mountain you would ever want to do that on, much less ride above timberline. It's big and it's scary.
Don't even know how you could highmark to the top of Park View though. Maybe with a race gas turbo. Even then, you'd be a bullet coming down it. Only thing I can think of is they somehow got through the trees from the trail and got onto the ridge line. Followed the ridge line to the top and the avy somehow occured from a cornice formed at the top that they could have been sitting on...
Don't even know how you could highmark to the top of Park View though. Maybe with a race gas turbo. Even then, you'd be a bullet coming down it. Only thing I can think of is they somehow got through the trees from the trail and got onto the ridge line. Followed the ridge line to the top and the avy somehow occured from a cornice formed at the top that they could have been sitting on...
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Good point Jordan. I've looked at that mtn and it is one of the most impressive around. Just because it stands alone and towers above everything else. Much like Hahns peak. Never ridden there and don't need the temptation of hitting any of that alpine terrain.
Sounds like it was a splitboard skier. I could see how that slope would be very tempting. enough trees to make you feel secure but not enough to hold the snow.
http://avalanche.state.co.us/caic/acc/acc_report.php?acc_id=514&accfm=rep
Sounds like it was a splitboard skier. I could see how that slope would be very tempting. enough trees to make you feel secure but not enough to hold the snow.
http://avalanche.state.co.us/caic/acc/acc_report.php?acc_id=514&accfm=rep
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Deep Powder Guy
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All aspects of the backcountry are all about judgement and instinct. All the technology and training although helpful can't stop Mother Nature. When you embark on a trip in the backcountry and your instincts tells you it's bad than its bad. Don't second guess your instincts or Mother Nature ability.
DPG
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Very sad day for all.
The CAIC reprot calls it as 11,000 feet. What is impressive in the pictures are the trees. The set of photos isn't CAIC's best, but it looks like the fracture line was among trees.
CAIC also calls this out as a splitboarder accident, and not a snowmobile accident. The Denver Post reported the SO information as snowmobilers.
I have a recollection of being in the saddle of ParkView for a 4H picnic about 1967 or so, and that we got there by pickup and jeep. I don't have one of my old forest maps or topos at hand to confirm, but its damn sure the memory. We were taught some tree identification that day.
Back then (and even into maybe the early '80s) you could go from White Slide Mountain (west of Parkview, off Chimney Rock Road and its predecessors. You could get to Corral Creek (east of Parkview, runs south from Parkview) and out to Highway 40 near Parshall, or out on Troublesome Creek (west of Parkview). These were old beetle kill roads from early 1950's, and and logging roads put in over decades ending in the early 70s.
The CAIC reprot calls it as 11,000 feet. What is impressive in the pictures are the trees. The set of photos isn't CAIC's best, but it looks like the fracture line was among trees.
CAIC also calls this out as a splitboarder accident, and not a snowmobile accident. The Denver Post reported the SO information as snowmobilers.
I have a recollection of being in the saddle of ParkView for a 4H picnic about 1967 or so, and that we got there by pickup and jeep. I don't have one of my old forest maps or topos at hand to confirm, but its damn sure the memory. We were taught some tree identification that day.
Back then (and even into maybe the early '80s) you could go from White Slide Mountain (west of Parkview, off Chimney Rock Road and its predecessors. You could get to Corral Creek (east of Parkview, runs south from Parkview) and out to Highway 40 near Parshall, or out on Troublesome Creek (west of Parkview). These were old beetle kill roads from early 1950's, and and logging roads put in over decades ending in the early 70s.
It was in fact a splitboarder. He was fairy prominent in the CO splitboard scene and a fantastic dude with a great passion for the outdoors. I never met him personally, but talked many times to him though different outlets and forums. Very tragic and unfortunate. Condolences to all those involved and the family.
Sad news. Never really got a grasp on the time of deployment of rescue teams and the times of rescue. Very poorly written article.
Praying for the deceased's family and friends.
Praying for the deceased's family and friends.
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yooper 8
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We were checked by a conservation officer in Muddy Creek parking lot on Friday who said this young boy fell off his snowmobile while riding and was struck by another snowmobile. Very sad.
Here are the details from local paper:
http://www.steamboattoday.com/news/2014/jan/03/some-details-about-fatal-snowmobile-accident-relea/
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