Jay Peak Death

[Greg]

http://www.caledonianrecord.com/pages/top_news/story/3f813a15e

Be careful out there....

 

[ctenidae]

Man, what's going on? Is this a result of the weird weather, making most places have a base of ice that's getting scraped down? Or is it just normal, and I've never paid attention before?

 

[sledhaulingmedic]

I can only speculate w/o hard data, but it certainly seems like this season is off to a deadly start.

 

[thetrailboss]

Thanks Greg for fixing that :wink:

Same resort hit twice in a week. Last week's racer is still in critical condition, but another person was killed on Lower Derrick Hot Shot this past weekend in an unrelated incident :

http://www.caledonianrecord.com/pages/top_news/story/3f813a15e

"Be aware. Ski with Care."

 

[Greg]

Man, what's going on? Is this a result of the weird weather, making most places have a base of ice that's getting scraped down? Or is it just normal, and I've never paid attention before?

These questions naturally come up, and did so last season too:

http://forums.alpinezone.com/viewtopic.php?t=968
http://forums.alpinezone.com/viewtopic.php?t=1356
http://forums.alpinezone.com/viewtopic.php?t=1422

I don't know the exact figure for the average number of skier deaths each season in the Northeast, but I've heard six tossed around. Not sure if that's just for New England though. Anyway, this year we have Killington, Sunday River, Jiminy and now Jay.