clear creek county so and ambulance being dispathed to top of pass for party trapped in avalanche at approximatly 1125 am
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Missed out on listening to most of it because I was chasing the ever elusive grouse around the woods with my trusty shotgun........
GRAND COUNTY - A 32-year-old man was killed in an avalanche near Berthoud Pass Sunday morning.
Sheriff Rod Johnson said Samuel Raymond Teetzen, of Denver, and two other backcountry snowboarders triggered the avalanche about 10:30 a.m. on the northwest side of Mines Peak, near the pass.
Teetzen was buried in the snow and it took about two hours to recover his body, Johnson said. The other two snowboarders weren't injured.
Rescuers triggered a second avalanche while trying to reach the boarders, but no one was caught in that slide.
Spencer Logan, an avalanche and mountain weather forecaster at the Colorado Avalanche Information Center, said the first avalanche was "fairly sizable," sliding up to 1,500 vertical feet.
Logan said the Mines Peak area in Grand County has been susceptible to slides in the past.
"It's not too early for avalanches," he said. "We've had just enough snow, especially with the snow Friday night."
Portions of Colorado's central mountains received more than a foot of new snow between Friday and Saturday.
Logan said many skiers, snowboarders and other outdoor enthusiasts don't concentrate on avalanche preparedness until later in the season.
"People aren't thinking about it seriously," he said. "They tend to turn off their brain until the winter when things look more like the familiar avalanche conditions."
Sunday's death is believed to be the first caused by an avalanche this ski season, Logan said. Last season, five people died in avalanches in Colorado, he said.
Missed out on listening to most of it because I was chasing the ever elusive grouse around the woods with my trusty shotgun........
GRAND COUNTY - A 32-year-old man was killed in an avalanche near Berthoud Pass Sunday morning.
Sheriff Rod Johnson said Samuel Raymond Teetzen, of Denver, and two other backcountry snowboarders triggered the avalanche about 10:30 a.m. on the northwest side of Mines Peak, near the pass.
Teetzen was buried in the snow and it took about two hours to recover his body, Johnson said. The other two snowboarders weren't injured.
Rescuers triggered a second avalanche while trying to reach the boarders, but no one was caught in that slide.
Spencer Logan, an avalanche and mountain weather forecaster at the Colorado Avalanche Information Center, said the first avalanche was "fairly sizable," sliding up to 1,500 vertical feet.
Logan said the Mines Peak area in Grand County has been susceptible to slides in the past.
"It's not too early for avalanches," he said. "We've had just enough snow, especially with the snow Friday night."
Portions of Colorado's central mountains received more than a foot of new snow between Friday and Saturday.
Logan said many skiers, snowboarders and other outdoor enthusiasts don't concentrate on avalanche preparedness until later in the season.
"People aren't thinking about it seriously," he said. "They tend to turn off their brain until the winter when things look more like the familiar avalanche conditions."
Sunday's death is believed to be the first caused by an avalanche this ski season, Logan said. Last season, five people died in avalanches in Colorado, he said.
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