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01-18-2020, 08:19 PM #1
18-Year-Old Dies After Farmington Peak (Utah) Avalanche
Last edited by sfotex; 01-19-2020 at 09:32 AM.
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01-18-2020, 08:51 PM #2
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01-18-2020, 11:43 PM #3
Fuck. It feels like one after another this year.
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01-18-2020, 11:46 PM #4Registered User
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01-20-2020, 08:43 AM #5
Absolutely heartbreaking. From the preliminary, the guy was wearing an airbag, he had a transceiver on, and he wasn't the first person to head up the slope. Snowpack around Logan and the Uinta mountains is much weaker than the snowpack in the Wasatch central.
My deepest condolences to that man's family, friends, and first responders.
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01-20-2020, 09:15 AM #6Banned
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RIP to the deceased young man. It will be interesting to see in the full report how steep the slope is and where he was on it when it failed. Very sad to see.
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01-20-2020, 06:11 PM #7Registered User
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Ah such a shame, sorry to friends and family. Did he not let go of the sled? How did he not surface with the airbag on?
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01-20-2020, 06:30 PM #8
I'm guessing the slope wasn't long enough for a sifting effect to occur. Surface area only rises once things have a chance to mix up. In the photos on the Utah avy center it looks like kind of a short run.
Incidentally, in most larger runout slides involving a snowmobile, the sled is what ends up on top.Besides the comet that killed the dinosaurs nothing has destroyed a species faster than entitled white people.-ajp
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01-20-2020, 06:39 PM #9
Also, it was a terrain trap at the bottom with slope flattening out abruptly to a lake.
There's nothing better than sliding down snow, and flying through the air
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01-21-2020, 06:51 PM #10
Painful to watch this and think about what the dad went thru...incredibly sad.
https://youtu.be/8WrwL61Ybgc
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01-21-2020, 06:54 PM #11Hungover & Homeless
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01-21-2020, 06:59 PM #12
I can see this tied into, and complicating, the other discussion re: age/risk.
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01-21-2020, 07:00 PM #13
That was a tough read. Must be incredibly hard for the dad.
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01-21-2020, 07:00 PM #14
Buried 11 feet.
"(3) Avalanche airbags are great lifesaving devices that can decrease mortality from 22% to 11%. However, they are not a sure thing. On Janurary 1st in Montana, a snowmobiler was buried 7.5 feet deep with a deployed airbag. Read more about the statistics HERE or the detailed scientific study HERE. In the case of this accident, even though Chase deployed his airbag, he was fully buried because the debris ran into a terrain trap"OH, MY GAWD! ―John Hillerman Big Billie Eilish fan.
But that's a quibble to what PG posted (at first, anyway, I haven't read his latest book) ―jono
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01-21-2020, 07:15 PM #15
Also, props to Davis County SAR for a fast response time.
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01-21-2020, 07:21 PM #16
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