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Dangerous Tree Well from Junction 133 on Vimeo.
haha you dont even know how wrong you are.
tree wells are dangerous, period. there is no argument.
Tyler A. Palmer, 37, was found upside down in a snow bank under a tree Sunday afternoon, officials said.
A passing ski patrolman helped dig him out and started CPR until paramedics arrived, but those efforts were unsuccessful.
Palmer was declared dead at the scene about 45 minutes later.
Palmer was skiing in bounds on an expert run, officials said.
His death is being called accidental.
for your sake i hope you read all the posts in this thread so you learn something that will probably save your life.
I do NOT envy anyone that lives in an area where a treewell can kill you, that's scary shit.
I ski in the Canadian rockies and I've fallen into lots of tree wells, always taken 20+ minutes to dig myself out, but I've never thought I was going to be stuck there forever. When I ski in other areas, this thread will have helped me out, Ill make sure Im damn careful and shred with a friend.
The body of a 22-year-old University of Colorado student was found at the Wolf Creek Ski Area on Wednesday.
Alex Singer, a senior studying ecology and evolutionary biology from Chappaqua, N.Y, bought a half-day pass at the ski resort that sits northeast of Pagosa Springs on Tuesday, said Mineral County Coroner Charles Downing.
"His car stayed in the parking lot all night long," he said. "So we are pretty sure the accident occurred sometime Tuesday after he purchased his ticket."
On Wednesday, another skier found Singer buried in snow at the base of a tree, Downing said.
Singer was an avid skier, and he was training to work on ski patrol at Copper Mountain, according to his friends and family.
"He lived for those powder days. He died doing something he loved," said Josh Morton, Singer's roommate and also a senior at CU. "He went down to Wolf Creek because they got 4 feet of snow."
Singer left Boulder for the mountains on Tuesday morning, first stopping at Breckenridge. But when he saw how little it had snowed there, he pushed on for Wolf Creek, said Morton, a snowboarder who got in about 50 ski days last winter with Singer.
"He was really intelligent and full of life," Morton said. "Anything active and outside he was always down for."
As a high school student in New York, Singer set his heart on going to CU after university recruiters showed him a poster of the campus, said his mother, Susan Singer.
"He said, 'I'll look at any school, and I'll go visit any college,'" Susan Singer remembered. " 'But I'm going to the University of Colorado.'"
Alex Singer was already a good skier when he showed up for his freshman year.
"He's been skiing all his life," his mom said. "He learned to ski at Steamboat and Whistler. He wanted to be in the mountains all the time."
The family hopes to have a memorial service in Boulder, but details have not been set.
Singer was the second CU student to die in a week. On Dec. 3, Transito "Tito" Eduardo Torres, also a senior, died after police say he jumped from an overpass onto U.S. 36.
"Our entire university community is saddened by the death of Alex H. Singer," said Deb Coffin, CU dean of students, in a statement to the media. "By all accounts, Alex was a good student and a valued member of our community. Coming on the heels of the passing of Transito 'Tito' Torres last week, this is an extra blow to our community and our student body."
Coffin said counseling services will be available to anyone who is affected through the Office of Counseling and Psychological Services.
Contact Camera Staff Writer Laura Snider at 303-473-1327 or sniderl@dailycamera.com.
