Two Snowmobilers killed???

[Extreme-One]

Saw it on the news tonight in Boise Idaho, channel 7... two snowmobilers were killed, one was from Praire and the other from Boise... just caught the end of the report. Family reported them missing after the weekend. Just seeing if anyone knows anything about it.

 

[1000Proof]

One of them was a good friend of my parents. Parents called and told me, wondering if I'd seen anything up there today. (Rode Trinities today...) Then I saw it on the news as a breaking story. Something about being lost in a storm and going off a cliff. Sorry I don't have many details.

 

[Weekday Warrior]

sad to hear, best wishes to all involved

 

[AkHockey10]

Yikes!

hey all you Praire & Boise dudes, lets us know your home safe!

 

[thebri]

http://blogs.ktvb.com/breaking/2008/03/bodies_recovered.html

 

[SAWYER]

Wow. I hate these stories. There sure has been a lot of deaths this year

 

[Wyoming T/A]

so sad, thoughts and prayers to the familys and friends

 

[007]

Wow. I hate these stories. There sure has been a lot of deaths this year

Has there? I was thinking that we were down a bit? The avy toll I think is down or at least it seems that I'm not seeing as many post on here or on the avy site about reports.

be safe

KJP

 

[snojunkee]

sad to hear

thoughts & prayers to the families involved.stay safe out there people.we have had 11 avy deaths alone in washington.that's a very high number,and we still have lots of snow in the high country.

 

[Jeff C]

I am thinking that they might have got disoriented in heavy snow and drove off the cliff?

Or maybe they stopped on a cornice and it gave way?


It almost has to be a lack of visibility type of thing.........


Sad, very sad!

 

[John]

http://www.ktvb.com/news/localnews/stories/ktvbn-mar1808-snowmobiler_avalanche.10a2109.html

More bad news. Sad deal.

 

[Extreme-One]

Wow... that's another one from the Orofino area (Lewiston, ID). Avys are still high and I'm sure visibility was an issue with the first two...

 

[F-Bomb]

The news report made it sound like recovery workers are speculating based on tracks in the snow and the position of the parked sleds they likely drove their sleds up to the edge of the river canyon rim, parked, and walked over to take a look. They said it appears that one slipped and possibly drug the other one over the cliff. You could see in the news photo of the recovery ropes that they were right on the canyon rim of the Boise River. There aren't any 600ft sheer cliff drops anywhere else other then on the river canyon rim in the entire area that you could actually drive your sled over. DANG!

 

[Bigballer23]

so sad, thoughts and prayers to the familys and friends

This is a terrible tragedy. Thoughts and prayers to the families.

 

[Kevco]

Very sad indeed. Condolences to the family.

 

[Trinity Taz]

Phil Taylor was one of the two men involved in the fatality. He was a great man, a fine father, a responsible snowmobiler, and a hell of an outdoorsman.

Phil was my friend and neighbor, and I am proud to have known him. He will be greatly missed by all, as I never knew a kinder man...he would help anyone anytime without eve a whisper of a complaint.

The scary part is that he and his friend John fell about 150 feet into a boulder-strewn lava cliff from his favorite overlook of the canyon, only 1 mile from his house. I shudder, as I have stood there many times myself, as it's just two miles from my place. The sun apparrently had softened the ash gumbo covering the rocks and the moss on the rocks was wet to boot. There was reportedly a live sagebrush torn from it's roots during the incident, probably a last-ditch effort to stop the fall. (I would like to think that they died trying to save each other...valiance to the end.)

Sometimes great things are said about not so great people after they are gone to try to glorify their lives, such is not the case here,

Phil Taylor WAS a great man!

Our prayers go out to all his family and friends.

 

[BossRev]

Phil Taylor was one of the two men involved in the fatality. He was a great man, a fine father, a responsible snowmobiler, and a hell of an outdoorsman.

Phil was my friend and neighbor, and I am proud to have known him. He will be greatly missed by all, as I never knew a kinder man...he would help anyone anytime without eve a whisper of a complaint.

The scary part is that he and his friend John fell about 150 feet into a boulder-strewn lava cliff from his favorite overlook of the canyon, only 1 mile from his house. I shudder, as I have stood there many times myself, as it's just two miles from my place. The sun apparrently had softened the ash gumbo covering the rocks and the moss on the rocks was wet to boot. There was reportedly a live sagebrush torn from it's roots during the incident, probably a last-ditch effort to stop the fall. (I would like to think that they died trying to save each other...valiance to the end.)

Sometimes great things are said about not so great people after they are gone to try to glorify their lives, such is not the case here,

Phil Taylor WAS a great man!

Our prayers go out to all his family and friends.

I think Phil was lucky to have a friend like you. Sorry for your loss.

 

[idpwdagrl]

Condolences to the family and friends of the men involved.

 

[EastcapeAngler]

Yeah, it's not good Just two dewds havin' fun