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Snowmobilers in Colorado, Wyoming latest avalanche victims
The Associated PressFebruary 19, 2021News
Colorado Avalanche Information Center via AP, FileIn this Feb. 14, 2021, file image provided by Colorado Avalanche Information Center shows an avalanche that killed an unidentified snowboarder near the town of Winter Park in Colorado. The latest victims of the deadly avalanche season in the Rocky Mountain region include a snowmobiler who was buried by a slide in northern Colorado and another snowmobiler who died in an avalanche in western Wyoming.
DENVER (AP) The latest victims of a deadly avalanche season in the Rocky Mountain region include a snowmobiler who was buried by a slide in northern Colorado and another snowmobiler who died in an avalanche in western Wyoming.
So far avalanches have claimed 25 people, all but one living in the West.
Across the West and in eastern Idaho and western Wyoming, backcountry slopes received several feet of new snow recently that piled up onto a poor foundation of snow made rotten by long stretches of dry periods during December and January.
âWhen we get a heavy snowfall it sits on a very poor foundation,â said Bill Radecky, an avalanche educator and guide based in Rigby.
While ski resorts mitigate avalanche hazards, backcountry users must be their own hazard experts.
The Bridger-Teton Avalanche Center recorded 16 slides in the past week, several were touched off by skiers. One avalanche hit Teton Pass on Tuesday.
UPDATE 9:30 a.m. Thursday: The man who died in an avalanche on Wednesday was Greg Stanczak of Michigan, according to Lincoln County Coroner Dain Schwab. Stanczak was visiting the area with his son and brothers and died when he was buried by avalanche debris in a Wednesday afternoon slide.
ORIGINAL STORY: First responders are on the scene of an avalanche in the Squaw Creek area, about four miles up Greys River Road from the trailhead in Lincoln County.
An avalanche that caught and carried eight snowmobiles was reported around 1:30 p.m. Wednesday.
A 56-year-old man was buried for about 20 minutes before friends found him and started CPR.
Michigan man killed in Squaw Creek avalanche
Bridger Teton Avalanche Center
Squaw Creek Avalanche on Wednesday
AFTON, Wyo. (KIFI)-The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office says a Michigan man was killed in an avalanche while snowmobiling in the Squaw Creek drainage of the Salt River Range.
Greg Stanczxak, 56, of Ironwood, Michigan was buried in the slide until members of his group were able to dig him out of the debris. He died of his injuries at the scene.
The Bridger Teton Avalanche Center said up to eight riders may have been involved in the incident at around 3:44 p.m. Wednesday.