In news never easy to hear, nor tell, a skier was killed over the weekend at Grand Targhee Ski resort in Wyoming about eight miles from the Idaho border. The skier has yet to be identified. According to the incident report by the Bridger Teton Avalanche Center, the “skier clicked out of his bindings. Walked out of bounds under a ropeline on a closed boundary and onto a cornice. He broke through and fell onto the slope below. This triggered a slide that carried him over a very large cliff. He was found by a Grand Targhee Avalanche Dog, buried 2 ft. deep in the debris below the cliff but had died of trauma.”
Grand Targhee, like many places in the west, is having a big year. The mountain has an 84-inch base. With all the snow, it’s been an intense year for avalanches, too. To the south on Teton Pass, two Jackson Hole-based snowmobilers were buried for hours on Christmas Eve in a massive slide and two skiers were killed near Jackson Hole Mountain Resort in late January.
