Report sheds light on deadly avalanche
The Idaho Panhandle Avalanche Center released its report Tuesday concerning the Jan. 11 avalanche that stranded two skiers and left a third skier dead near Stevens Peak.
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The Idaho Panhandle Avalanche Center released its report Tuesday concerning the Jan. 11 avalanche that stranded two skiers and left a third skier dead near Stevens Peak.
Here's a roundup of some of the local stories Missoulian reporters put out this week.
The fatality was the second avalanche death of the 2023–24 winter in the U.S., and the second consecutive day with an avalanche fatality. On Jan. 10, an in-bounds avalanche at Palisades Tahoe resort in California killed one person. And on Sunday one backcountry skier died in an avalanche in Wyoming's Prater Canyon, about 34 miles south-southwest of Jackson and near the state line with Idaho.
A skier was killed in an avalanche Thursday, Jan. 11 near Stevens Peak and Lookout Pass at the Idaho-Montana border.
The Shoshone County Sheriff’s Office have released the names of the three people caught in an avalanche in Idaho that left one person dead. Two people were rescued on Friday.