R.I.P. Timy Dutton, Beloved Squaw Valley, CA Skier I first met Timy Dutton in 2007. I’d heard his backstory from friends about a recent life challenge that he’d overcome. He’d come back to skiing and decided to try the freeskiing competition in Kirkwood, CA. He won it. Then he went to the comp in Alaska and won that, too. He’d entered […] Miles Clark | April 29, 2020 16 Comments
Another Fatality at Troubled Lodi Parachute Center, CA as Woman’s Parachute Failed to Open An experienced female skydiver died when her parachute failed to deploy during a jump at the Skydive Lodi Parachute Center near Sacramento, CA according to the center. The incident happened Sunday 15th October. The San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Department confirmed that the coroner’s office is investigating the skydiving death near Acampo. The woman was using her own parachuting equipment when […] SnowBrains | October 15, 2018 5 Comments
Squaw Valley President & CEO Injured Skydiving Yesterday | 2 Surgeries, Currently in Hospital 50-year-old President & CEO of Squaw Valley, Andy Wirth, was skydiving alone yesterday in Lodi, CA when he had a very hard landing. During the hard landing Andy badly injured his arm. The arm injury must be pretty bad because Andy has already had one surgery and he is scheduled for another. SnowBrains’ medical team has told us that an […] SnowBrains | October 15, 2013 11 Comments
