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Avalanche may have caught victim just as it began to dissipate |
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Thursday, January 26, 2012 14:58 |
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By TOM ROSS, STEAMBOAT PILOT & TODAY
STEAMBOAT SPRINGS — The avalanche that claimed the life of 24-year-old Tyler Lundstedt, of Fort Collins, on Saturday night or Sunday morning started well below the tree line, fell 140 vertical feet and was of moderate power.
“It broke into old snow and was about 2 feet at the deepest,” Ethan Greene, director of the Colorado Avalanche Information Center said Wednesday evening.
Greene and a companion spent most of the day Tuesday at the scene assessing snow conditions and the terrain in the vicinity of the avalanche path. Greene ultimately will write a report about the fatal avalanche, but it won’t be complete until he can interview the victim’s brother Jordan Lundstedt, 21. Jordan Lundstedt partially was buried in the avalanche but survived after extricating himself from the snow. He located his brother by using an avalanche beacon but not in time to rescue him.
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