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The Fin Avalanche Accident

The Fin Avalanche Accident 3 skiers caught and partially buried, 1 seriously injured Cooke City, MT Custer-Gallatin National Forest – January 8th, 2021 SYNOPSIS On January 8, 2021 a group of six skiers triggered an avalanche on The Fin on Republic Mountain outside of Cooke City

HUMAN FACTORS IN AVALANCHE ACCIDENTS Dale Atkins

This accident and others during the 1990s highlight a troubling trend where knowledgeabl (avalanche aware) people made decisions that ended in a negative outcome In fact this accident shares many common themes (steep slopes, fresh snow, signs of instability, no rescue gear, etc ) with other avalanche accidents Every yearthese same themes reoccur

THE SME AVALANCHE TRAGEDY OF JANUARY 20, 2003: A SUMMARY OF

2 3 The Avalanche At about 10:45 am according to mountain guide and avalanche instructor Larry Stanier in his technical report to the Coroner, the seven ski tourers who were above the La Traviata couloir heard a sudden “whumpf” and noticed a shift of the snowpack Then a slab avalanche estimated to be about 50 m wide, 400 m long, and 50 cm

Mount Jumbo Avalanche Accident Country: USA Fatalities: 1

Bear Point Avalanche Accident *PRELIMINARY ACCIDENT REPORT*

Bear Point Avalanche Accident *PRELIMINARY ACCIDENT REPORT* L o c a ti o n : B e a r P o i n t , Ch u g i a k, A l a ska Da te : F e b 2 , 2 0 2 1 Re p o r t c o mp i l e d b y : A l a ska Mo u n t a i n Re scu e G ro u p wi t h a ssi st a n ce f ro m t h e Ch u g a ch

Bell Lake Avalanche Fatality

prior to the accident reached high 20s F with overnight lows in the teens F Temperature at the time of the avalanche was 28 F at Albro Lake and 29 F at Lower Twin SNOWPACK The avalanche occurred at 9,000’ elevation on an east-southeast aspect with a starting zone slope angle of 36-40 degrees (measured with inclinometer)

Heuristic Traps in Recreati onal Avalanche Accidents

As sad as this accident was, the real tragedy is that similar stories unfold in accident after accident, year after year An experienced party, often with avalanche training, makes a crucial decision to descend, cross, or highmark a slope they believe is safe And then they trigger an avalanche that buries one or more of them

Accidents and economic damage due to snow avalanches and

of a person in an avalanche or landslide accident is included in the economic loss as 100 million IKR (1 2 million USD) per fatal accident, the total cost of avalanche and landslide accidents in Iceland in the last 26 years together with the cost of avalanche protection measures is more than 13 billion IKR (162 million USD)

AVALANCHE ACCIDENT- Boardman Pass SUMMARY: 1 snowmobiler

the entire season A widespread natural avalanche cycle had occurred in much of the advisory area the weekend prior to the accident, and a smaller avalanche had claimed the life of a skier a week earlier; the local and regional press had covered that accident extensively On the morning of January 28th, the

Evidence of heuristic traps in recreational avalanche accidents

avalanche accidents, I used a simple quantitative approach described in an earlier study (McCammon, 2001) Each accident was assigned a hazard score equal to the sum of the number of hazard indicators