There were three fatalities and one injured. Facebook. Please read our full statement for specific information regarding our decision to end daily avalanche forecast operations on March 24th, 2020. Stevens Pass Avalanche Story. 25 and the Fast Mail Train No. Spring Travel Advice. The Stevens Pass avalanche of 1910 was one of the deadliest disasters in Washington state history.
It happened at about noon PST in the Tunnel Creek section of Stevens Pass, a mountain pass through the Cascade Mountains of Washington, at the border of King and Chelan counties. Stevens Pass was hit by a powerful winter storm leading up to Sunday's avalanche. Issued: 6:26 PM PST Monday, April 13, 2020 by Dennis D'Amico. Google+. The 2012 Tunnel Creek avalanche occurred in the northwest United States on February 19, 2012. The events leading up to this catastrophe started around February 20th. Twitter. Stevens Pass ski patrollers, called to duty whenever more than a few inches of snow fell, had arrived to check and control the ski area’s 200 inbounds avalanche zones. When the avalanche ripped, there was no sound—no rumbling, no snapping of trees, no screams from any of the seven people who’d just skied the untracked 42-degree slope off the back side of Washington’s Stevens Pass resort. This bad weather forced two trains (the Spokane Local Passenger Train No. Throughout the days before the avalanche there was a very large blizzard and many storms. With successful completion of this 80-hour course you will have the Wilderness First Responder and CPR for the Professional Rescuer certificates required by most outdoor education and professional outdoor recreation services, including Stevens Pass Patrol. The resort reported 14 inches of fresh snow overnight and 26 inches in the prior 48 hours. All forecast operations have ended for the 2019/20 season. I watched as my friend Jim Jack, 46, dropped in and crested a roll in the terrain. Avalanches and avalanche accidents occur in snow-covered mountains in the Spring. The Wellington Avalanche of March 1, 1910, near Stevens Pass is still the deadliest in U.S. history, with 96 lives lost. Stevens Pass. Pinterest.