Looks like Squaw Lost a Patroller in a slide.

[DaHeel]

Vibes to friends and family!

http://www.vaildaily.com/news/fatal-...ampaign=buffer

[adrenalated]

Fuck, that sucks. Vibes to the Tahoe community.

[rod9301]

I blame ksl for being too cheap to install more gazex and automated bomb systems.

They know where the slides happen, and they could cover them without putting the patrollers lifes at risk.

[TahoeJ]

Wasn't a slide but an accident with a hand charge. At least that's what I've heard from three separate sources. Or hand charge caused the slide and he went with it. :-(

Blaming KSL for this is stupid. Squaw has like 300 slide paths... you can't put gazex everywhere. And reportedly this happened on mainline where they just installed 2 gazex's this summer.

[rod9301]

Wasn't a slide but an accident with a hand charge. At least that's what I've heard from three separate sources. Or hand charge caused the slide and he went with it. :-(

Blaming KSL for this is stupid. Squaw has like 300 slide paths... you can't put gazex everywhere. And reportedly this happened on mainline where they just installed 2 gazex's this summer.

My point exactly. Automating this process would have prevented this accident.
Mainline ridge would be really easy to control with a moving cable that drops bombs.

You see then all over in Europe.

[TahoeJ]

You cannot automate all of the slide paths at Squaw. That's just a ridiculous statement. Any patrollers feel free to jump in here...

[rod9301]

You cannot automate all of the slide paths at Squaw. That's just a ridiculous statement. Any patrollers feel free to jump in here...

Ok, you're right, not all of them, but still, a lot more needs to be invested

[wolfy]

You know what- there are friends and family watching this right now.
We need to cut the bs finger pointing until the facts are in, let these guys mourn and do their job.
There always has to be a quarterback who never lost a game on Monday.
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[yeahman]

Sorry to hear this. Condolences to the patroller's family and friends, the local ski community, and the ski patrol community at large. Seems like a dangerous job to me and I appreciate very much what they do. RIP

[2FUNKY]

Ah fuck! This sucks hard. RIP

[Underoos]

http://unofficialnetworks.com/2017/0...osives-related

This sucks. Joe taught my OEC class when I started as a patroller at WP. I didn't know him that well, but he was a great guy. His loss will stretch far beyond Squaw.

RIP Righteous Joe Zuiches

edit: https://www.gofundme.com/squaw-patrol-funeral-fund

[snoqpass]

My point exactly. Automating this process would have prevented this accident.
Mainline ridge would be really easy to control with a moving cable that drops bombs.

You see then all over in Europe.

You don't have any avalanche control experience do you?

[stanmarsh]

My point exactly. Automating this process would have prevented this accident.
Mainline ridge would be really easy to control with a moving cable that drops bombs.

You see then all over in Europe.

Red dog alone has like 300 slide paths. The entire mountain is avalanche terrain. There is nothing about Squaw that is easy to control.


RIP, Joe. Thanks for keeping us safe.

[PNWbrit]

Just awful.

Condolences to his friends, family and Squaw skiers.

[skinipenem]

Terrible news.

[Bunion 2020]

As someone who was directly involved with a similar type of accident a little over 20 years ago, please keep the armchair QB-ing and criticisms to a minimum until the facts are known.

Vibes to the Squaw/AM families.

[nickwm21]

Sierra Sun has some videos posted of the press conference. http://www.sierrasun.com/news/fatal-...aves-one-dead/

[TahoeJ]

http://unofficialnetworks.com/2017/0...osives-related

This sucks. Joe taught my OEC class when I started as a patroller at WP. I didn't know him that well, but he was a great guy. His loss will stretch far beyond Squaw.

RIP Righteous Joe Zuiches

edit: https://www.gofundme.com/squaw-patrol-funeral-fund

Awesome to see 22k already raised in a matter of hours with an original goal of 7k. I hope that can just go to his family and Squaw should pick up the tab for any funeral related expenses.

[summit]

just awful

TahoeJ: Sierra Sun is reporting what you heard earlier about it being explosive related: http://www.sierrasun.com/news/fatal-...aves-one-dead/

[Foggy_Goggles]

Horrible. I thought that name looked familiar and 'roos verified. RIP.

[Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer]

RIP. Condolences to his family and friends. A special thanks to all of the patrollers for the hard and dangerous work they do on a day to day basis to let us enjoy the mountains.

[Art Shirk]

[Underoos]

This is the only picture I have of Joe. He's on the left, heading out to bomb the Cirque at Winter Park in 2006.



He was built like a ski racer. He skied on Atomics. He was always friendly and never an asshole to the FNGs. He fly fished a little but we never talked about it. After he left the valley I know he taught English in South America for a while before settling in CA. He still has a lot of friends here. I didn't know he had a wife and baby.

[powdork]

My point exactly. Automating this process would have prevented this accident.
Mainline ridge would be really easy to control with a moving cable that drops bombs.

You see then all over in Europe.

Do you mean, a moving cable that drops hand charges?

[rod9301]

Do you mean, a moving cable that drops hand charges?

Yes