Snowboarders Who Triggered Eisenhower Tunnel Avalanche Sentenced to 20-Hours Community Service Evan Hannibal and Tyler DeWitt, two Summit Country backcountry snowboarders who triggered an avalanche last year that buried a CDOT maintenance road and damaged avalanche mitigation equipment, pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges of reckless endangerment at the Summit County Justice Center yesterday (Monday, 7th June 2021). Both were sentenced to twenty hours of community service. Related: Settlement Pending in Court […] Avalanche AvyBrains | June 8, 2021 3 Comments
GoPro Footage of Fatal Avalanche Shown to Jury in Wrongful Death Trial Against Vail Resorts GoPro video from Conlin and another of the boys with whom he was skiing wrapped up the first week of testimony in the wrongful death lawsuit his parents filed against Vail Resorts, reports Vail Daily.ย An in-bounds avalanche on Prima Cornice killed their son Jan. 22, 2012. The first video, shown in court but not released to the public, was a […] Avalanche SnowBrains | June 18, 2018 0 Comments
Alta Defends Right to Keep Snowboarders Out Alta successfully defended itself at a federal appeals court on Friday from a lawsuit saying that their exclusion of snowboarders is unconstitutional. “Quite simply, the Constitution neither recognizes nor protects a right to snowboard,” Alta attorneys wrote in court documents The Alta attorney actually went so far as to say that the skiing experience at Alta is “safer” due to the lack of snowboarders because skiers down’t have to worry about being hit by snowboarders-sideways-stance- […] Industry News SnowBrains | June 28, 2015 7 Comments