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Search and rescue crews say extreme skiers 35-year-old Seth Anderson and 40-year-old Ann Driggers are lucky after being trapped in an avalanche. Anderson is hospitalized in serious condition. Driggers wasn’t injured. More than 4,500 feet above the Grand Valley, the two skiers are both no stranger to adventure, but this adventure proved to be a little too extreme.
“He wasn’t trapped, from my understanding, he was pushed by the avalanche,” explains Bruce Valiquet with the Mesa County Search and Rescue Team. The two-person ski team was joined by dozens of search and rescue crew members on the lookout.
“Avalanches can kill you whether it’s spring or winter,” warns Bill Thomas, who works the ground crew for the Mesa County Search and Rescue Team. Thomas says there’s a big difference between spring and winter avalanches. A winter avalanche is ones you typically think of: massive amounts of snow can tumble up to 80 miles an hour. A spring avalanche is different but just as dangerous. “In the springtime, the snow that’s in the sun melts and the water percolates through the snowpack, so it makes it kind of a slushy mixture sitting on a very weak layer which collapses to the ground,” says Thomas.
Crew members advise people to travel in groups of four, know the area, as well as the weather. They say always have a disaster plan just in case things don’t turn out the way you think they will. “Always ask yourself, ‘what am I going to do if things don’t work out like I thought they would?’” says Thomas.
Experts also say if you are heading to the back country make sure you tell someone when and where you are going.
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