Three people were killed when an avalanche hit Silver Mountain in Idaho on Jan. 7
that killed three people was caused by the actions of a group of skiers and snowboarders, an ongoing investigation by the Idaho Panhandle Avalanche Center found.
While North Idaho’s Silver Mountain ski patrol took steps to lessen the risk of avalanches on Jan. 7, the movements of about a dozen people on a trail triggered the deadly avalanche shortly after 11 a.m. that morning,“[Ski patrol] had done their control work just like they always do,” the avalanche center’s director, Jeff Thompson, told the newspaper of the ski patrol’s efforts. “In fact, I think they did more than they normally do to open that slope.
Once the snow began moving, the outlet explained, it slid more than 900 feet down a 35-degree hill. Three people were killed and two others were buried alive but rescued, according to the newspaper.“There are no fingers to be pointed from IPACs standpoint,” he said. “Sometimes explosives and mitigation practices aren’t enough,” Thompson added. “Mother Nature has a mind of her own.”
A larger investigation into the tragedy is being conducted by the IPAC and Silver Mountain, and will be released someone in the “next couple of weeks,” the resort’s spokesman, Gus Colburn, told the
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