Bad Wipeout

[Ripitz]

Tara Geraghty-Moats, 'Murrican Nordic combined skier and all-around badass, wrote a quite moving tribute to Ian Forgays. Sounds like quite the mentor and role model.

Can you post a link? I couldn’t find it

 

[Peter Minde]

Can you post a link? I couldn’t find it

https://www.facebook.com/tara.geraghtymoats/posts/10216011013103074

"Ian,
I can't honestly imagine coming home to spring skiing at Mad River Glen without you being there.
You were an amazing role model and all the worst and best ways. If there were more people like you in the world, it wold be a better place.
Thanks for always feeding me on your tailgate grill in the ski area parking lot, after a long days of skiing non-stop runs when i didn't have any lunch money.
Thanks for always handing me an IPA, even when I was too young.
Thanks for aways swapping stories about the winter when I got back from Europe in the spring.
Thanks for being honest and genuine.
Thanks for showing the world how to be stoked on life, every day.
Thanks for cheering me on loudly, very loudly, from my first ever freestyle event at age 8 to my first World Cup podium.
Thanks for always racing me down chute, and never admitting defeat until both skis had been ejected off your boots.
Thanks for teaching me what sending it meant.
Thanks for teaching me that ice cliffs were made to be skied or jumped, not feared.
Thanks for showing the world what it meant to live life to its fullest.
Thanks for teaching me how to ignore broken bones, and show up to work, or the ski slopes, or both at the same time regardless of pain.
(That really came in handy when I had to race through two fully fractures ribs. )
Thanks for instilling in everyone around you your love for nature, beer, skiing, racing, duck tape, mirror lenses, flat brims, hard work, Bob Marley, going fast, going way to fast, hucking it, sending it, and living it.
Ski in Peace brother, I'll see you on Mt Washington I'm sure."

 

[Ripitz]

It sounds like he was a cool guy. It’s too bad he’s gone

 

[tirolski]

The Avalanche Center at Mt. Washington did a write up of what they know.

https://mountwashingtonavalanchecenter.org/avalanche-fatality-ammonoosuc-ravine/#next

 

[Ripitz]

Spooky

 

[Ripitz]

Snowmaking avalanche at Sugarloaf? Really?

 

[tirolski]

Two more downed by avalanche today. One snowmobiler, one backcountry skier. Stay safe folks. https://www.avalanche.state.co.us/accidents/us/

 

[tirolski]

Three were lost Sunday. A split boarder in Montana. Total for season is now 25. Yikes.

 

[saratogahalfday]

Three were lost Sunday. A split boarder in Montana. Total for season is now 25. Yikes.

A guy NPR interviewed about these recent slides said many more people could have died in them, they were just extremely lucky.

 

[Ripitz]

Three were lost Sunday. A split boarder in Montana. Total for season is now 25. Yikes.

As always this is just terrible news. This one hits home though. I’ve skinned that ridge to ski Middle Basin. Sounds like they missed the normal uphill route. I doubt that would have made a difference though since the danger was everywhere. One of the points made in the summary of the Wilson Glade accident in Utah to be considered,

• Former forecaster Evelyn Lees found that 32% of avalanche fatalities of tourers from 2009 to 2017 happened on the ascent. Her study stresses the need to find safe ascent routes.