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Thread: Fatality near Kaslo, BC
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01-10-2023, 07:08 AM #1Registered User
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Fatality near Kaslo, BC
Not much information yet.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/briti...aslo-1.6708689
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01-10-2023, 07:11 AM #2
on the job. that sucks.
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01-10-2023, 09:16 AM #3
Victim was a cop but he was snowmobiling for fun, not on the job.
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01-10-2023, 09:39 AM #4Registered User
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CBC are typically clueless. I don’t know anything more, but from avalanche.ca
“We received a report of a serious incident involving two skiers late Monday afternoon near Kaslo. The size 2.5 avalanche was human triggered on a west facing slope at treeline around 2100 m, failing on the deeply buried November facets”.Blogging at www.kootenayskier.wordpress.com
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01-10-2023, 10:12 AM #5Registered User
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For those wandering (took me a while to find it -- the above quote is from today's forecast from AvCan: https://www.avalanche.ca/map/forecas...02e?panel=null
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01-10-2023, 09:35 PM #6Registered User
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01-11-2023, 07:32 AM #7Registered User
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Skiing the plum line off the easily accessible peak above Empire cabin. I’ve skied it dozens of times. I can imagine the familiarity bias at play, dropping in to what has been safe so many times before, despite every warning that this was exactly the type of slope to avoid.
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01-22-2023, 10:10 AM #8
the second officer has succumbed to his injuries, RIP.
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