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
2 Skiers Who Ducked Rope to Fetch Lost Ski Required Rescue From Aspen, CO Backcountry At approximately 2:41 pm on Tuesday, April 6th, 2021, the Pitkin County Regional Emergency Dispatch Center was called by Aspen Mountain Ski Patrol about two out-of-bounds skiers off Aspen Mountain, CO. Related: Drunk Snowboarder Rescued From Aspen Mountain, CO Backcountry After Leaving Resort and Getting Lost The skiers had exited Aspen Mountain underneath a ski boundary rope at the bottom […] SnowBrains | April 8, 2021 0 Comments
Backcountry Skier Required Rescue From Mount Ritter, CA After Breaking Leg on Guided Trip On March 29th, 2021, around 3:00 pm, the Madera County Sheriff’s Office received a call for service regarding a female subject who had slipped and fallen along the Minarets in the Sierra National Forest. The patient, a 35-year-old female from Seattle, WA, was on day two of a six-day group skiing trip along the crest of the Sierra. While skiing, […] Backcountry SnowBrains | April 5, 2021 0 Comments
Skier Survives 1,000-Feet Fall Down Main Gully on Mount Washington, NH After Binding Fails on First Turn At approximately 4:00 pm, on Saturday, April 3, 2021, a call was received for a skier that was injured after a tumble down a steep slope in the Gulf of Slides on the south-east side of Mount Washington, NH. Related: Mount Washington, NH: Home Of The World’s Worst Weather The victim was identified as 61-year-old Arild Hestvik of Newark Delaware. Limited […] Industry News SnowBrains | April 5, 2021 0 Comments
Night Vision Technology Aids in Successful Midnight Avalanche Rescue Using night vision technology, Whistler and North Shore search and rescue teams worked together on a midnight rescue of two skiers stranded by an avalanche. Around 6 PM on Wednesday, March 10, Whistler Search and Rescue (WSAR) was alerted that a Size 3 avalanche had trapped two ski tourers on Fissile Mountain, BC. Related: VIDEO: Avalanche Rescue – Probing and […] Avalanche Alex Mangels | March 15, 2021 0 Comments
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Woman in Yoga Pants, Sports Bra, and Light Jacket Calls 911 From Top of Avalanche Chute After Getting Lost on Berthoud Pass, CO A woman was lucky to survive after making “errors too obvious to enumerate” and becoming lost between Mines Peak and Mount Flora on Berthoud Pass, CO. The 20-year-old woman was snowshoeing with her dog in the Colorado backcountry when she became disoriented on the top of an avalanche zone north of Berthoud Pass. After trying to call her boyfriend, she called […] SnowBrains | January 25, 2021 3 Comments