A 22-year-old snowboarder from Casper, Wyoming and a 5-year-old girl are dead after a collision at 2:30 PM Friday afternoon December 24, 2010 at Hogadon Ski Area. The girl and her mother had stopped on a run and the snowboarder apparently hit them, according to a story on Trib.com.
The snowboarder crashed into a five-year-old girl and her mother as the two were stopped on a ski run, Sheriff’s Lt. Mark Sellers said Saturday. . . All three were taken to Wyoming Medical Center. The man and the girl were pronounced dead at the hospital. The mother, who lives in the Casper area, was injured and remained hospitalized a day after the crash. An update on her condition was not available.
The collision occurred on a “black-diamond” run called Dreadnaught and the Sheriff’s office is investigating.
Knowing nothing at all about this particular case we are reminded of one thing: if anyone riding at a resort can’t avoid hitting someone who is stopped on a run they are riding well outside their abilities. Period.
We can’t even begin to imagine the pain these two families are going through this Christmas. Our thoughts are with everyone involved.
A 15-year-old Portland snowboarder became the fourth snowboarder to die at Mt. Hood Meadows this year, according to a story on OregonLive.com.
A Portland boy, who was not identified, was discovered lying face down in the snow at Mt. Hood Meadows Ski Resort at 9:24 p.m. on Wednesday (December 22, 2010). The lifts closed at 9 p.m. and members of the ski patrol were clearing the slopes when they discovered his body near the North Canyon trail.
The cause of his death is still unknown and reportedly being investigated by the local sheriff’s office.
[Update December 28, 2010: According to a story on KPTV.com the Medical Examiner has stated that the snowboarder who died, Illya Petrovich Sirosh, as “not killed in a snowboarding accident,” however, they are still working on finding the cause of death.]
Snowboarder Christian Rea, 35, of Tuscon, Arizona died on Saturday, December 18, 2010 at Colorado’s Wolf Creek Ski Area after dropping a 40 foot cliff in the resort’s Water Fall area and landing on his head, according to a story in the Valley Courier.
Mineral County Coroner Charles Downing said the injuries from the landing resulted in his death. . . “He ruptured an artery in his neck. He hyper extended his neck backwards and ruptured the artery that goes to the brain stem, and that cut off the blood supply to the brain stem and it killed him quickly.”
Apparently, one of Rea’s friends had made the drop but told Rea and another snowboarder to go around.
“He was hollering to his other friends ‘don’t do it, go around,’ and it was too late for the young man and he skied down off of that at a pretty good speed and ended up landing on his head.”
Wolf Creek is having a rough early season. After Rea’s death on Saturday the resort was closed on Wednesday afternoon December 22, 2010 when the resort experienced another avalanche. No one was reported injured in that slide. Our thoughts are with Rea’s friends and family.
Wondering what 17 feet of new snow looks like? This photo from the top of Mammoth Mountain’s Chair 23 gives a little idea.
This photo was taken yesterday (December 21, 2010) during a break in the storm as Ski Patrol was throwing hand charges off the top of the Chair 23 for avalanche control. Ski Patrol is working really hard to get the terrain open so props to them for all their hard work during this storm!
When they finally get the top open snowboarders will be exiting the chair into a snow tube at 11,000 feet the right into the Wipe Outs. . . amazing.
Bad Santa brings sends it with a little “Christmas Cheer” from Onboard Magazine.
Try as we might to hold on to this until Chrismas Eve, the fact that the Onboard crew will be in transit to their various familial bosoms means we’ve decided you’ll get your Christmas present early this year. So, on behalf of all at Onboard, we wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Kind of glad that guy is staying on the other side of the pond, if you know what we mean.
686, with a little help from Malakye.com and SIA Snow Show, have created a a design contest that could allow three up-and-coming outerwear designers the perfect platform they need to launch a career in the burgeoning snowboard outerwear industry (or something like that). It’s called The Reclaim Design Project and it goes something like this:
This contest will give three designers the opportunity to make an original outerwear garment from reclaimed materials, trims, and left over items from the 686 production facility. The contest will begin the opening morning of the SIA Snow Show, Thursday, January 27 but first, we have to find THREE qualified designers who can come show their stuff on the show floor.
Follow the jump for all the info on how to become one of three designers who will get the chance to sew a jacket in real time on the floor of the SIA Show. It will be just like Project Runway. . . kinda. [click to continue…]
The theft was reported Thursday but it is unknown the exact date the equipment was taken. Stearns County deputies describe the rail as being 27 feet long. . . The first 24 feet are flat and the last 3 feet slope down, Stearns County Sheriff John Sanner said. The top is constructed of 1½-inch steel tubing, rolled on the ends and painted black. It has a flat surface of clear poly plastic.
Not sure when it was taken? Are 27-foot-long flat down rails that hard to miss?
Argento finished 50th out of the 51 snowboarders who qualified in the event. . . Argento is enrolled in cyber school in order to devote more time to his snowboarding career.
Looks like all that cyber schooling is finally beginning to pay off for young Ezio.
Johua Vigeant, 31 of Pembroke, New Hampshire died while snowboarding at Cannon Mountain on Sunday December 19, 2010, according to a story in the Nashua Telegraph. Cannon General Manager John DeVivo told the paper the following:
Vigeant was snowboarding with three other friends, and one reported the emergency at 1:36 p.m. to ski patrol. DeVivo said ski patrol found one friend performing CPR on Vigeant when they arrived. Vigeant was not wearing a helmet when he was found.
Local police and ski patrol are still conducting an investigation. This is reportedly the second on-snow death at Cannon in two weeks. Our thoughts are with Vigeant’s family and friends.
