Skiers caught and carried in 4th of July Couloir, in Beehive Basin on Friday, April 22nd.
From email: "just under the top of the couloir, my partner noted that the new snow
had become much denser, an observation I did not register. Immediately after making this observation,
he watched a crack propagate from his ice axe, upslope and to the left about twenty feet. In response,
he shouted and attempted to self-arrest, but was unable to resist the moving snow and was pushed
over backwards. I was immediately behind him as this happened and noted the moving snow around me
as he called out. I’m not entirely sure how, but I managed to move sideways, out of the moving snow,
before I had been carried through the constriction in the couloir. As I stood up, I watched as my partner
was carried out of the couloir and about halfway down the bowl beneath it, what I would estimate to be
100-200 yards."