RIP Rocky

[stalefish3169]

Sounds like a cornice collapse avalanche. Didn't know him, but seemed like a rad dude.

https://www.kgw.com/article/news/reg...3-eb3a72d9bf07

[Ørion]

https://www.chronline.com/stories/bo...ntified,337757

This is an especially rough one, apparently evidence suggests that he survived the initial fall and died of exposure.

[MakersTeleMark]

I came a cunt hair away of dying from exposure/hypothermia. It was rather soothing after a couple hours of shaking uncontrollably, and it took me a very long time to be awakened back to reality. The worst I would imagine would be major trauma like a femur. That I wish not to experience.

[coldfeet]

https://www.chronline.com/stories/bo...ntified,337757

This is an especially rough one, apparently evidence suggests that he survived the initial fall and died of exposure.

Ugh. That's distressing to read.

Probably a lot of us have reached the top of something, or just reached a lunch stop, and if it seems not-sktechy, taken off the backpack/equipment, and stretched, pranced around, took a picture, whatever. Moving away from the gear seems innocuous much of the time, until it isn't.

[Clownshoe]

I had a good friend die ski this way touring in the Canadian Rockies back in the day. He got to a summit with his touring partners. They unroped and sat for lunch. He got up and walked 5 feet from their safe spot and fell through a cornice.

I'm always hyper aware of cornice lines as a result.

RIP to this skier. He sounded like a total beauty.

[ridge_skier]

Final report is out. https://files.nwac.us/wp-content/upl...elens.docx.pdf

The pictures really show how amazing it is he survived the initial fall/avalanche and it's heartbreaking to see how close he was to safety on his climb out.