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AMERICA Ski, Snow, Resorts News, Feb 23, 2012


PHOTO: An avalanche near Stevens Pass ski area in Washington state swept four skiers 1,500 feet down a mountain, killing three of them, Sunday, Feb. 19, 2012, King County Sheriff's Office officials said.

3 Skiers Killed in Wash. Avalanche; 4th Survived
ABC News
Three skiers were killed Sunday when an avalanche swept them about a quarter-mile down an out-of-bounds canyon at a popular resort, but a fourthskier caught up in the slide was saved by a safety device, authorities said. The four were among three ...
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BC-US--Washington Avalanche, US
The Associated Press
The Freeskiing World Tour and Utah's Snowbird Ski and Summer Resorthad scheduled a gathering at the resort Monday afternoon to remember Jack, whom Stifter described as generous, smart and influential in the skiindustry. The skiers were equipped with ...
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The Associated Press
'Absolute horror': Witness describes avalanche that killed skiers
San Jose Mercury News
Powder Magazine senior editor John Stifter, who witnessed the slide that killed three of his skiing companions Sunday, said one person survived by bear-hugging a tree and holding on as the snow barreled over him. Another skier who was caught in the ...
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Avalanche kills three 'expert skiers' in US
Stuff.co.nz
The four were among three groups of skiers - about a dozen people in all - making their way through about 45 centimetres of fresh snow on the back side of Stevens Pass, in the Cascade Mountains northeast of Seattle, in the US state of Washington, ...
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Avalanche deaths up among ranks of experienced skiers
TheNewsTribune.com
Among the victims in Washington was Jim Jack, the longtime head judge of the Freeskiing World Tour, who was killed along with two other experienced backcountry skiers near the Stevens Pass ski area. Their party of 13, all of whom were buried in snow to ...
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TheNewsTribune.com
3 dead in Wash. avalanche were expert skiers
Casper Star-Tribune Online
King County Sheriff's Sgt. Katie Larson says the men were among three groups of people skiing out-of-bounds at the Stevens Pass ski area who were caught up in the avalanche Sunday. The others managed to dig them out and performed CPR, to no avail.
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Stevens Pass Avalanche: Jim Jack, Chris Rudolph and Johnny Brenan Dead In ...
Huffington Post
By PHUONG LE 02/21/12 07:26 AM ET AP Three experienced skiers were killed during an avalanche in an "out of bounds" area at Stevens Pass. SEATTLE -- The expert skiers wasted no time after an avalanche hit and swept their friends down a steep slope in ...
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Science Behind Avalanche 'Air Bag' Saves Skier
NPR
Audie Cornish speaks with Doug Abromeit, former director of and now consultant for theUS Forest Service National Avalanche Center, about how the air bag works. On Sunday, three experienced skiers were killed by an avalanche in Washington state.
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Avalanche survivor: Friend died 3 feet away
CBS News
CBS News correspondent Bill Whitaker spoke with one of the survivors, Elyse Saugstad, who was enjoying a day of skiing in pristine back country with eight friends, all expert skiers, when suddenly the snow started to shift beneath her.
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Official: Wash. slide swept up 4 skiers, killed 3
OneNewsNow
Authorities say an avalanche near a Washington state ski resort swept four skiers1500 feet down a mountain, killing three of them. King County Sheriff's Sgt. Katie Larson says the three men killed Sunday were all expert skiers.
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Four confirmed dead in US ski resort avalanches in Washington State
Herald Sun
UPDATE: FOUR people are confirmed dead after avalanches at popular ski resorts in Washington State, US authorities say. The King County Sheriff's Office began receiving word about a slide that killed three experienced skiers near the Stevens Pass ski ...
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Avalanche victims identified
WGME
The Seattle Times says Jim Jack was one of about a dozen expert skiers who were on backcountry slopes near a popular ski resort when the avalanche hit. The newspaper says the director of marketing for the resort, Chris Rudolph, was also killed.
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Three dead as avalanche hits Washington ski resort
Telegraph.co.uk
Three male skiers have been killed in the US after an avalanche struck a popular ski resort in Washington on Sunday. By Amy Willis, Los Angeles The men, believed to be in their thirties and forties, were skiing in an out-of-bounds location near the ...
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Telegraph.co.uk
Washington avalanches: 3 dead at Stevens Pass and 1 killed at Alpental ski area
Daily Mail
By Daily Mail Reporter A professional skier saved by a safety device recounted the horror of careering down a 3000 foot ski slope in the avalanche that killed three other advanced skiers. Survivor Elyse Saugstad told Good Morning America that being in ...
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Daily Mail
Skiers head to Stevens Pass as avalanche victims mourned
KIRO Seattle
All three men lived in Leavenworth. Michael Gave, from Shoreline, skisStevens Pass every week. "Wrong place at the wrong time, it could happen to any of us,” said Gave. Gave didn't know the victims of the avalanche, but said they're on his mind.
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KIRO Seattle
Sales Blowing Up for Airbag That Saved Skiers in Avalanches
WTMA
Courtesy ABS Avalanche Rescue Services Inc.(SEATTLE) -- The airbag backpack -- among other snow-safety gadgets -- seem to be getting a second look after an advanced skier credited her device with saving her life this weekend in an avalanche that killed ...
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4 dead in 2 US avalanches
Mother Nature Network
By Agence France-PresseMon, Feb 20 2012 at 5:58 AM EST AVALANCHE: The skiing area close to where three skiers died in an avalanche near Stevens Pass in the Cascade Mountains, Washington. (Photo: Kevin P. Casey/Reuters) Four people were killed in two ...
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Mother Nature Network
Backcountry fun, then a fatal slide
The Wenatchee World Online
By Jefferson Robbins AP Photo/The Seattle Times, Erika Schultz King County sheriff's officers and other emergency officials work along Highway 2 near Stevens Pass ski area, where the three skiers died in an avalanche Sunday. Chris Rudolph and Jim Jack...
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Four Killed In US Ski Resort Avalanches
Sky News
Three skiers died when an avalanche struck near the Stevens Pass ski area in the Cascade Mountains of north-central Washington. King County Sheriff's spokeswoman Sgt Cindi West said eight other people listed as missing had been found alive and unharmed ...
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Sky News
Two caught in fatal avalanche have Santa Cruz County ties
San Jose Mercury News
A part-time Santa Cruz resident survived an avalanche that killed three skiers Sunday in an out-of-bounds area near a popular Washington ski resort. The three men were killed when they were swept about a quarter-mile down a canyon.
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Avalanche kills 3 in Washington state
Chicago Sun-Times
AP February 20, 2012 10:32AM King County Sheriff's officers and other emergency officials work along Highway 2 near Stevens Pass ski resort in Skykomish, Wash., near where three skiers were killed in an avalanche Sunday, Feb. 19, 2012.
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Skiers tune up for state tourney with Swiss Alps tour
Boston.com
“It's the first time I've ever skied on fresh powder; nothing in the UScompares to it.'' After seven hours on the slopes their first day, Alex concurred. “It was one of the best days of skiing I've ever had.'' And she has been on skis since she was 4.
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Boston.com
Skiin' With Ian: Resorts welcome holiday week skiers
WCAX
Presidents Day week is the last critical holiday period of the season for ski resortsacross the Northeast. "As far as the season for us here at Stratton, it's really important that we put together a big holiday period," Quinn said. Skier visits are ...
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Four dead in two US avalanches: officials
Herald Sun
FOUR people have been killed in two avalanches near a ski resort in the northwesternUS state of Washington, authorities say. US media initially reported that at least eight others were missing in the incidents, which took place on Sunday near Stevens ...
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Avalanches kill three in Washington state ski resorts
The Guardian
An avalanche near a popular ski resort in Washington state killed three people Sunday, and all those initially reported as missing have been accounted for, a resort official said. John Gifford, general manager at the Stevens Pass ski area, ...
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The Guardian
Avalanche Leaves At Least Three Dead In US
RTT News
(RTTNews) - An avalanche near a ski station in the north-western US state of Washington has left at least three people dead and some eight others missing, local officials said late on Sunday. The avalanche struck near the Stevens Pass in the Cascade ...
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Washington State avalanche survivor speaks to media
KOB.com
The avalanche near Stevens Pass was preceded by a foot and a half of freshly fallensnow and brought out skiers of all skills, including pro skier Elyse Saugstad, who was seen with about a dozens others heading to a "ski-at-your-own-risk" area called ...
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Experts say training, gear not always enough to survive when avalanches strike
Newser
By PHUONG LE | AP | Feb 20, 2012 4:24 PM CST in When disaster struck, a group of expert skiers who survived a large weekend avalanche in an out-of-bounds area near a Washington state ski resort turned on their emergency beacons and began looking for...
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SKIING: Resorts put on new face for social media
Daily Breeze
By Bob Cox Columnist How do you measure ski area popularity? Skier visits used to be the gauge, and the same handful of North American resorts dominated every year. It was more a measure of snow conditions, or marketing, than of true popularity.
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Avalanche: Four dead in two ski accidents
allvoices
By Stephanie Ealy A popular ski area in Wash. state became a nightmare for skiers on Sunday as three were killed in an avalanche. Another location lost one snowboarder in a separate avalanche. Those dead from the avalanche in Steven's Pass were all men ...
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Purchase by Vail Resorts will mean numerous upgrades for Kirkwood ski resort
Examiner.com
Located off remote Highway 88, Kirkwood has always been considered a skier and rider's mountain, with terrific terrain and more snow most seasons than other Lake Tahoe ski resorts. The Tahoe locals refer to Kirkwood as “The Wood.
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U.S. News - 3 skiers dead in Washington avalanche
By msnbc.com staff and news services
Updated at 8:25 p.m. ET SEATTLE – Authorities said three men have died in an avalanche in an out-of-bounds area near a popular Washington state ski area. Otherskiers who had been reported missing were accounted for on Sunday. Sgt.
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BC-US--Washington Avalanche, US - Action News 5 - Memphis ...
The skiers were equipped with safety devices and kept track of each other as they strayed beyond the boundaries of the popular Stevens Pass Ski resort, about 90 miles northeast of Seattle. But the precautions still didn't save some from ...
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U.S. News - 'White the entire way': Skier survives killer Wash ...
By King5.com and msnbc.com news services
Well-equipped and familiar with the terrain, about a dozen expert skiers were making their way through a foot-and-a half of fresh snow when an avalanche hit them in an out-of-bounds area near a popular Washington ski resort on Sunday.
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3 skiers killed in Wash. avalanche; 4th survived - KTRE.com Lufkin ...
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Sheriff: 2 reported dead in Stevens Pass avalanche - WMBFNews ...
Get Myrtle Beach and Florence-area news, weather, sports and community information and more. ... BC-US--Washington Avalanche,730 3 skiers killed in Wash. avalanche; 4th survived AP Photo WASET101, WASET102 Eds: New Approach. With AP ... (AP) - Well-equipped and familiar with the terrain, about a dozen expert skiers were making their way through a foot-and-a half of fresh snow when an avalanche hit them in an out-of-bounds area near a popular Washington ski resort.
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Survivor: Deadly avalanche a 'horror story' | Outdoors | Eugene ...
When the snow broke loose, a group of expert skiers who watched in horror as a large avalanche swept their friends down a steep slope in Washington state immediately turned on their emergency beacons and began searching for signs of life. ... The skierswere equipped with safety devices and kept track of each other as they strayed beyond the boundaries of the popular Stevens Pass Ski resort, about 90 miles northeast of Seattle. But the precautions still didn't save some from ...
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Washington Avalanche Kills Three Advanced Skiers - Yahoo!
"I think there were a few of us that were down below the avalanche. ... a group of 15skiers who were exploring outside the resort boundaries in search of ... are on their own," John Gifford, general manager of Stevens Pass told ABC News. ... alert for areasabove 5000 feet, indicating that warm weather could loosen snow.
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Washington avalanches: 3 dead at Stevens Pass and 1 killed at ...
MailOnline - news, sport, celebrity, science and health stories ... Three men including former pro-skier died at resort near Seattle; Pro skier Elyse ... She said she had no choice but to try and breathe by keeping snow off of her face and wait for help. .... Its very simple, US ski resorts pay particular attention to conditions, you ...
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Harris Hill skiers ready for launch - Brattleboro Reformer
New England News ... a team made up of Mount Snow Resort snowmakers and Harris Hill volunteers, who have been ... Also on Saturday will be the U.S. Collegiate skijumping finals and the United States American Ski Jumping finals. ... Only an occasional snow drought, World War II and a three-year hiatus to re- build the ...
www.reformer.com/news/ci_19992623
Website Pleases New Mexico Skiers And Riders - OnTheSnow
Find a Resort. Canada. USA. South America. Europe. Oceania ... New website alerts N.M. skiers and riders when pow' is big at Wolf Creek and other areas.
www.onthesnow.com/news/a/106193
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