Gene Jacobs, 59, left his home about 5:30 a.m. and was scheduled to attend a meeting at Real Life Ministries Silver Valley that morning, but never arrived. Jacobs had been the church's lead pastor for more than 15 years
first responders were dispatched to a 2 p.m. report Friday that one person in a group of snowmobilers sustained multiple injuries and was in need of rescue.
"This weak layer looks deceptively benign — small, obviously rounding facets that are only a half step softer than the slab above and that didn't propagate in our tests. I even commented to that effect prior to the slide. It is anything but benign."
A skier was air-lifted from backcountry terrain near Essex on Saturday after they were seriously injured in a large avalanche set off by their partner from the slopes above.
"This weak layer looks deceptively benign — small, obviously rounding facets that are only a half step softer than the slab above and that didn't propagate in our tests. I even commented to that effect prior to the slide. It is anything but benign."
"This weak layer looks deceptively benign — small, obviously rounding facets that are only a half step softer than the slab above and that didn't propagate in our tests. I even commented to that effect prior to the slide. It is anything but benign."
On Monday, the Idaho Panhandle Avalanche Center released a 13-page final report on a Dec. 11 avalanche in the Lone Peak drainage, near Steven's Peak in the Bitt