Free Avalanche Course Being Offered in Park City, UT on November 2nd The Utah Avalanche Center (UAC) is hosting a free avalanche rescue and safety course in Park City tomorrow. The event is open and running anytime between 4-7 pm, admission is free, and it is taking place at Matt Knoop Memorial Park in the heart of Park City. In regards to the Community Avalanche Rescue Practice event, the UAC wrote: “The […] Avalanche Jesse | November 1, 2021 0 Comments
Ultra-Marathon Runners Rescued After 12-18″ of Snow Dumped on Utah’s Wasatch Mountains It was a lovely day for an ultra marathon until a foot-and-a-half of snow dumped on the unprepared runners’ intended route. Local rescue teams were forced to extract more than 80 ultra-marathoners from Utah’s Wasatch Mountains near Salt Lake City on Saturday after extreme weather dumped 12 to 18 inches of snow, causing near white-out conditions during the DC Peaks 50 […] SnowBrains | October 11, 2021 3 Comments
Search For Former Navy Seal Missing in Yellowstone Moves From Rescue to Recovery After five days of searching, efforts to locate Kim Crumbo at Shoshone Lake in Yellowstone National Park transitioned from rescue to recovery on September 24. Park search and rescue crews located the body of his step-brother Mark O’Neill along the east shore of Shoshone Lake in Yellowstone National Park Monday, September 20. Related: 1 Body Found and Another Man, a Former Navy Seal, Still Missing in Yellowstone National Park O’Neill, 67, […] SnowBrains | September 27, 2021 0 Comments
Skier Without Helmet Suffers Serious Head Injuries After Sliding Into ‘Jagged Rocks’ on Tuckerman Ravine, NH View this post on Instagram A post shared by Mt Washington Avalanche Center (@mwacenter) On Sunday, May 30, at approximately 1:20 pm, a Mount Washington Volunteer Ski Patroller radioed the USFS lead snow ranger to report that a skier had taken a sliding fall down a 35-degree snow slope into Lunch Rocks in Tuckerman Ravine, NH. A short […] Industry News SnowBrains | June 1, 2021 0 Comments
Hikers Dressed in Just Shorts and T-Shirts Airlifted Out of Steamboat Springs, CO Wilderness After Weather Changed Routt County Search and Rescue volunteers spent ten hours rescuing a couple in the Steamboat Springs, CO wilderness on Sunday after the weather changed and they were stranded in just shorts and t-shirts. Related: Could You Survive An Unplanned Night Out in the Mountains? The hikers started at Mad Creek trailhead, and by 4:30 pm were about halfway between there […] SnowBrains | May 4, 2021 1 Comment
Californian Mountain Biker Left Clinging On For Life Hundreds of Feet Above the Ground After Going Over Cliff A mountain biker who went over the side of a cliff wound up hanging upside down and clinging on for his life hundreds of feet off the ground while crews worked out how best to rescue him. Related: Twitter Comes to the Rescue of Hiker Missing in Angeles National Forest, CA The biker, known only as ‘an older man,’ was […] Cycle CycleBrains | April 20, 2021 2 Comments
Hoist Rescue Required for 2 Skiers Cliffed Out on Mount Superior, UT Salt Lake County Sheriff’s Search and Rescue (SLCOSAR) was called out Friday evening to assist two “cliffed-out” skiers near Mount Superior, UT. The two set out from Alta early Friday afternoon, intending to ski the south face of Superior. They missed their line and ended up descending further west, between Superior and Monte Cristo. They enjoyed turns in excellent snow […] Industry News SnowBrains | April 19, 2021 0 Comments
Hikers Dressed in Shorts Rescued After Getting Stuck on Cliff Near Snowmass, CO On Tuesday, April 6, 2021, around 12:40 pm, the Snowmass Village Police Department received a phone call from a man who stated that he and his hiking companion were near the Rim Trail and were stuck on a cliff face in an area that was too steep to continue hiking in any direction. Related: 2 Skiers Who Ducked Rope to […] SnowBrains | April 8, 2021 2 Comments
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