Jennifer Mullen wrote 12/31/2008 11:34 AM Re: Avalanche in British Columbia [Re: Sarah Morris ] #221897 - 12/31/2008 11:34 AM
Jennifer Mullen Webboard User Reg: 08-16-2007 Posts: 2365 Loc: Toronto, Ontario, Canada Offline	I can't believe people purposely do that. I can remember at the cottage when I was a kid drunken snowmobilers trying to jump open parts of the lake - which is bad enough (especially since at least once that I can remember, the guy was unsuccessful) but purposely breaking cornices and triggering avalanches....wow. I don't know what happened in the incident this thread was about, other than that there was an avalanche warning. Clearly a tragedy, and perhaps all the more so b/c it likely was preventable (given the warning). Very sad for the friends and family, and I imagine it's difficult to have something like this happen is a small community. Teagan!
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Andrew May wrote 01/02/2009 06:42 AM Re: Avalanche in British Columbia [Re: Marj Remland ] #222075 - 01/02/2009 06:42 AM
Andrew May Webboard User Reg: 05-18-2005 Posts: 210 Loc: Newfoundland, Canada Offline	The CNN report said that RCMP dogs were used in the search. I wonder how that played out, and why the Canadian Avalanche Rescue Dogs were not deployed. Anyone have any thoughts on the likely success of a highly trained and well selected RCMP dog that is a generalist (ie patrol, detection, tracking suspects) vs. a specialist avalanche dog trained to find (usually dead) bodies in an avalanche zone. rgds andrew may
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Andrew May wrote 01/02/2009 06:51 AM Re: Avalanche in British Columbia [Re: Andrew May ] #222076 - 01/02/2009 06:51 AM
Andrew May Webboard User Reg: 05-18-2005 Posts: 210 Loc: Newfoundland, Canada Offline	http://www.carda.bc.ca/ the video here answered some of my questions. Apparently there are also RCMP dogs trained specifically for avalanche in BC. In this case as it was clearly a cadaver search (next day search) no need for local quick response of the CARDA teams, of which Jen Coulter is one. Hope that Jen will post on this! AM
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Michele McAtee wrote 01/02/2009 07:23 AM Re: Avalanche in British Columbia [Re: Andrew May ] #222080 - 01/02/2009 07:23 AM
Michele McAtee Webboard User Reg: 02-05-2006 Posts: 1121 Loc: Iowa City, Iowa Offline	Still, no word from Jen, huh?
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Jennifer Mullen wrote 01/02/2009 07:59 AM Re: Avalanche in British Columbia [Re: Michele McAtee ] #222086 - 01/02/2009 07:59 AM
Jennifer Mullen Webboard User Reg: 08-16-2007 Posts: 2365 Loc: Toronto, Ontario, Canada Offline	i was just reading the news, and saw there were 2 more avalanches in BC involving 2 (separate) skiiers: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090101.wavalanchedeath0101/BNStory/National/home it says they're used CARDA teams to search the area to make sure no-one else was caught, so if jen is a CARDA searcher, she's probably been busy. Teagan!
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