Valemount Conditions and Updates

[YamaDoo PolCat]

UN-FN - Believeable!!

By 250 News

Saturday, April 11, 2009 04:36 PM


Valemount, B.C.- An Alberta man has died in an avalanche south of Valemount.

RCMP say they got the report of the slide in the Monashee Mountains, approximately 25 kilometres south of Valemount, near the Clemina Creek snowmobiling area yesterday afternoon.

RCMP officers, BC Ambulance Service, Robson Valley Search and Rescue responded immediately. Details are still being pieced together but it is believed that a number of snowmobilers were taking turns riding up a slope when one of them triggered the avalanche and was buried by it near the bottom of the hill. Other snowmobilers were eventually able to locate and dig out the victim and start CPR.

Unfortunately, efforts to revive the victim were unsuccessful and the 24 year old male victim from Sherwood Park, Alberta was declared dead on scene. No others were caught in the avalanche or injured by it. Name of the deceased male is being withheld pending notification of Next of Kin. The RCMP and BC Coroners Service continue to investigate.

 

[depsnolvr]

Due to rain and warming conditions we are now done grooming for the season.
Thank you all for supporting our town

Trails are starting to patch a bit from the parking areas, but access is still great. It was snowing most of the day at Allan and when we left.

Please make sure that pack out all you pack in and keep the cabins clean and tidy.

Thanks again and have a SAFE spring season

Please contact the VARDA office with any questions regarding summer recreation opportunities in the Valemount Area.

I will still be updating when I can, but Im wiping the dust off the fishing poles

 

[somefear]

By 250 News

Saturday, April 11, 2009 04:36 PM


Valemount, B.C.- An Alberta man has died in an avalanche south of Valemount.

RCMP say they got the report of the slide in the Monashee Mountains, approximately 25 kilometres south of Valemount, near the Clemina Creek snowmobiling area yesterday afternoon.

RCMP officers, BC Ambulance Service, Robson Valley Search and Rescue responded immediately. Details are still being pieced together but it is believed that a number of snowmobilers were taking turns riding up a slope when one of them triggered the avalanche and was buried by it near the bottom of the hill. Other snowmobilers were eventually able to locate and dig out the victim and start CPR.

Unfortunately, efforts to revive the victim were unsuccessful and the 24 year old male victim from Sherwood Park, Alberta was declared dead on scene. No others were caught in the avalanche or injured by it. Name of the deceased male is being withheld pending notification of Next of Kin. The RCMP and BC Coroners Service continue to investigate.

Just can't believe that yet again another fatality due to avalanches....anyway the avalanche course that was supposed to be held in Valemount on the 18th & 19th of April has now been canceled due to low enrollment. Zacs Tracs is rescheduling it for January 2010 and perhaps earlier if there is more interest. Can't believe with all the fatalities this season that more sledders wouldn't want to get educated....

 

[bopper]

hey is there any way they could make it into an online course kinda thing for those of us who live far away and only come once a year... im sure ppl would pay to do a course online.. u can do everything else online now a days

 

[corex radnar]

By 250 News

Saturday, April 11, 2009 04:36 PM


Valemount, B.C.- An Alberta man has died in an avalanche south of Valemount.

RCMP say they got the report of the slide in the Monashee Mountains, approximately 25 kilometres south of Valemount, near the Clemina Creek snowmobiling area yesterday afternoon.

RCMP officers, BC Ambulance Service, Robson Valley Search and Rescue responded immediately. Details are still being pieced together but it is believed that a number of snowmobilers were taking turns riding up a slope when one of them triggered the avalanche and was buried by it near the bottom of the hill. Other snowmobilers were eventually able to locate and dig out the victim and start CPR.

Unfortunately, efforts to revive the victim were unsuccessful and the 24 year old male victim from Sherwood Park, Alberta was declared dead on scene. No others were caught in the avalanche or injured by it. Name of the deceased male is being withheld pending notification of Next of Kin. The RCMP and BC Coroners Service continue to investigate.

One week after that video.... Somethings got to change guys. Natural selection is not the right approach.

 

[somefear]

hey is there any way they could make it into an online course kinda thing for those of us who live far away and only come once a year... im sure ppl would pay to do a course online.. u can do everything else online now a days

There already is an online course....right on the Canadian Avalanche site.

http://www.avalanche.ca/HomeCAC

Click on online avalanche course. On the Zacs Tracs website there is also a lot of information and links

http://www.zacstracs.com/

The information is out there....just need to do the research. Nothing can take the place of actual hands on experience and practicing with your beacon, probe and shovel in mock rescues though.... I sure wish we could have had the numbers so the course in Valemount would have taken place on the 18th &19th of April. Next year I have a feeling it's going to become MANDATORY and it won't be affordable like it is now. When the gov't regulates things they will set their own price.

 

[isistwinteryet]

Due to rain and warming conditions we are now done grooming for the season.
Thank you all for supporting our town

Trails are starting to patch a bit from the parking areas, but access is still great. It was snowing most of the day at Allan and when we left.

Please make sure that pack out all you pack in and keep the cabins clean and tidy.

Thanks again and have a SAFE spring season

Please contact the VARDA office with any questions regarding summer recreation opportunities in the Valemount Area.

I will still be updating when I can, but Im wiping the dust off the fishing poles

Always a good time in Valemount, thanks for all the updates through the year. By the way, whats it like to have the best "job" in the world? Dusting off the fishing poles...must be tough.

 

[depsnolvr]

Thanks for the kind words, and yes, most of the time I do have one of the best jobs in the world and am very greatful for it, but there is LOTS that go on behind the scenes that take a lot of dedication and hard work. We have a great Board of Directors that help alot.


The mountains look to be gettin hammered with the white stuff this morning ! Whiteouts on all the mountain tops and even the odd flake making it to the valley bottom

 

[captain extreme]

are you guys still riding from the staging areas?

 

[depsnolvr]

Im sorry, really not sure about the access right now, although I dont think you can drive up any of them yet. A bit of gravel never hurt a machine......

Looks to have snow'd up top for the last few days. Reports of 9"-12" in Allan all weekend

 

[captain extreme]

just wondering if we're deckin it or gonna try out the new 4 place enclosed

 

[maxwellzx]

be safe and deck it

 

[depsnolvr]

woke up to a snow covered ground this mornin !

All melting now, but the hills must have got a good dose

 

[TheStrayCat]

has Valemount been getting snow up top or rain does anyone know? how much gravel is at the bottom?

 

[depsnolvr]

With so many requests for info, I went out to look for myself yesterday.

Allan parking area is completely bare, and users are parking in the back 40 by the entrance to the trail, some are even driving up .5km to the very small turnaround, but I dont think its worth it. Expect to ride aprox .5km of pure gravel from the staging areas and patches until 3km. The trails are melting very fast. I recomend using the old switchback trail as the new trail is melting extremely quick. Up top was very hard in the morin and nice a soft by mid afternoon.

I do not believe Clemina can be accessed from the original staging area any longer. My recomendation would be to park up in the next pullout at the beginning of the FSR road or even up the road if it melts more, but I dont think that can be done yet. Remember to make sure you are well off the highway. Remember Dixon is now open !

Still use caution out there and respect this tricky snowpack and please resist the temptation to look for snow and enter Caribou Closures. It has been an excellent year with compliance and I would like to keep it that way.

Enjoy the spring sunshine !

 

[captain extreme]

were headed up in a hour or so woo woo,!!! hope the weathers good!!

 

[maxwellzx]

This is a duplicate of my snowandmud post


hey i did see some tracks on dixon under the 2feet of fresh it recieved overnight:d:beer:

anyways.

had a good ride on saturday a little setup but sunny and warm. rode clemina and dixon glacier on sunday. AWESOME. no one was on it. there was about an inch of fresh in clemina and about a foot and half to two feet on the glacier. sunny and one of the best days this year. i forgot my camera in valemount so ill try and find some good ones that i took on my other one.

drove past codys avalanche which is still visible as a reminder to play safe for the day.

seems pretty stable now. we were cutting some sidehills on a steep shorter slope and wasnt moving.

ALSO

TO THE GUY BASHING/BEATING DOWN THE DIXON GLACIER ENTRANCE SIGN.

IT IS OPEN IDIOT WTF ARE YOU DOING? . " OH SORRY I DIDNT WANT TO GET IN TROUBLE"

AND WHO LEFT EMPTYS ON TOP OF MY GAS CANS....GUYS LIKE YOU MAN GUYS LIKE YOU

if your in doubt. call varda. ask on here, or ask someone thats in the area. AKA ME I WAS RIGHT THERE

ps. drove to the first bridge. by next weekend expect to be at the seond bridge. trail was in great shape tho!!

 

[maxwellzx]

ill post some gooders tommorow. forgot my camera

 

[maxwellzx]

 

[acidal69]

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