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Eight Americans die in B.C. avalanche
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REVELSTOKE, B.C. (CP) -- Eight American back-country skiers were killed and a number of others rescued after an avalanche crashed down a mountainside Monday in eastern British Columbia.
The slide came down near the Durrand Glacier, 37 kilometres north-northeast of the town of Revelstoke in the Selkirk Mountains. There were conflicting reports of how many people were caught in the avalanche, which happened late Monday morning.
Some reports put the group's size at 20 but Ian McKichan, regional coroner for the B.C. Interior, said it was a party of 10 people and a guide.
McKichan said eight died and two were injured.
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Yeah, I just heard about this too. bad news indeed. It isn't a good time to be backcountry skiing in western canada without excelent avi knowledge. we've had very little snow all season, and all of a sudden we get 20+cm. so unstable. Avi's will happen without a human trigger even. Such a shame. hope for the best for the survivors and families of the skiers. peace all and ski well
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i heard about that, but does anyone know if its like morrison or mcgovern...its the fird=st thng i thought when i heard it. thoughts are with the families and friends of those who passed away no matter who it was. peace
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They havnt released the names of the people that died in that avalanche, but my orthodontist was up there. He was telling me last week, when I was getting my braces tightened about this place called Selkirk Wilderness which is the trip that he goes on once a year. And this same company that runs the trip on snowcats is the one where all the people died. So it is weird he also like wrote the website on a sticky note, hopefully he wasnt one of the 8 that died. He was in a group of 20 though. But after a little research there are like 2 companies in canada with the same name selkirk wilderness, But I am still not sure yet.
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at least it wasnt canadians who died it would of been half of your population that died eh
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so i fucked her three times and punched her in the back of the head
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I heard they were cross country skiers...they must have been traversing some bowl when it came down on them, being in a line and all.
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nah on the news i heard it was heli
Acid is like a women, a good one will eat right through your pants.
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one skier of the eight who died was from Colorado according to 9NEWS. I think that some of the skiers were pros...there were a total of 20 people in the group,(including filmers), and all the pros go to BC during this time...but i dont know thats what i think.
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this just in...
7 skiers dead (not 8)
4 canadians
3 americans (1 from colorado)
no names being released yet.
www.spyder.com
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Link to CNN News...
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Link to CNN News...
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PPP... yes
'When you say 'I wrote a program that crashed Windows', people just stare at you blankly and say 'Hey, I got those with the system, *for free*'.' -- Linus Torvalds
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yeah kuz we only have 16 people up here...
thoughts to the families and friends of all the victims whether pro or not, kuz that really does not matter.
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yeah, i heard about it this morning on the Today Show. NBC newsman, Matt Lawler (spelling?), interviewed Chris Davenport about alvalanches. Im really interested in who was involved in the accident if anyone has any info. My condolences go out to the families of the skiers.
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'Just 'cause you got twin tip skis doesn't make you a snowboarder.' -Quote taken from the dumbest snowboarder i have ever met.
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craig kelly was in the avalanche and die...
for the guys here who don't know him, he's just a snowboard legend...
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http://www.bomberonline.com/Forums/Thread.cfm?CFApp=2&Thread_ID=6037&mc=2
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that sucks
My girlfriend told me to shove my skis up my ass
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wow thats terrible, my thought go out to all the families of the people that died, and i hope no pro skiers were in it, because they could be filming aorun that time
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They went out doing what they loved to do though....
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that sucks so bad..i heard about it on the news
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my friend said there was this world cup champ snowboarder, is that kelly?
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cnn sez that the people killed were like 50 so i dont think there were any pros there that we, or at least i, know about
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craig kelly was the guide, for a 20 persons group
and yes he has been four times freestyle world champion
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god bless them
Some people got to learn...you don't need good equipment to get some mad tricks. Thats why i use cross-country skis :)
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ya, did u hear bout the avalanche in vail pass? luckily the guy only broke his leg!
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Its been a pretty rough start to tthe season for the snowboard industry. Craig Kelly dying is huge. He is the guy Terje Haakonsen looked up to as the greatest snowboarder ever. Triston Picot also died a few weeks ago in an avalanche in Jackson that a bunch of other high profile riders were caught in.
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