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Accident Reports:
http://alpineclub-edm.org/accidents/accident.asp?id=743
Date: 27 Jan 1999
Location: Grouse Mountain (1211 m) - North Shore, Vancouver
Province: British Columbia
Park or Region: Vancouver
Topo Map: 92 G/6 North Vancouver
Route: Grouse Grind
Type: Hiking
Persons Killed: 1
Persons Injured: 4
Type of Injuries: fatality, undisclosed serious injuries
Description: "A North Vancouver man has emerged as a hero in the wake of last week's tragic avalanche that injured four hikers and is presumed to have killed a fifth. Ken Rutland, 35, was himself hiking the Grouse Grind last Wednesday when the avalanche struck. He was behind the group swept away by the rushing snow but was the first to come upon them. He noticed conditions on the trail deteriorate rapidly at around the three-quarter mark of the trail and would have turned back if he hadn't heard voices up ahead. The voices turned out to belong to two of the avalanche's survivors: M.M. and E.L. Both were pinned against trees by the snow. They were about 60 feet apart. E.L. had a cell phone which he used to call for help and M.M. said his friend, R.M., was unaccounted for. Rutland made his way down the trail to look for R.M., who was described as having red hair. While searching for Manning he heard moaning coming from a nearby gully. As he approached the source of the moaning he saw a man wrapped around a tree with his torso sticking out of the snow at an odd angle. The man, who turned out to be 40-year-old M.S. of North Vancouver was facing the snow and hanging onto some branches. "He was just calling in pain. At that point I just said, 'everything will be OK,'" said Rutland. He also saw a bare "dark and hairy" leg sticking out of the snow near M.S. He knew the leg didn't belong to R.M., a fair-skinned red head. "The leg disappeared into snow under M.S." said Rutland, who began digging the man out. "I remember just touching his neck and feeling a pulse. And then I just undug him and then he popped into consciousness." Rutland asked the man, who turned out to be 32-year-old K.B., if he knew what had happened to him --that he was caught in an avalanche. K.B. didn't, but he did remember being on the Grouse Grind. Both men had suffered serious injuries in the mishap and were unable to move under their own power. Both were also in severe pain. Another avalanche negated Rutland's initial efforts to dig K.B. out. As a result he decided they needed to move from their location. He cut out a nearby landing or shelf in the steep hillside to keep the men safe and had just finished when a second avalanche hit. This one "luckily just spun us into the landing". Yet another avalanche hit the men a short time later. "It kind of felt like we were being swept along by a river," recalled Rutland, who then dug another landing, though a deeper one this time. Several more small avalanches hit them before North Shore Rescue personnel arrived, during which time Rutland did his best to continue to reassure the two injured hikers and try to keep them warm with the extra dry clothing he had in his pack. When the first North Shore Rescue three-man squad arrived, Rutland continued to assist. North Shore Rescue team leader Tim Jones, who was part of the three-man team first to arrive at the scene last Wednesday, had high praise for the BC Transit Security employee. "This was a heroic action because he put himself at risk," said Jones. "For the rest of us this guy's a hero. We don't see ourselves as heroes because we choose to get into this." Jones added that although R.M. is still missing the current operation's focus has shifted from rescue to recovery. For his part, Rutland hasn't decided if he'll be doing the Grouse Grind again, though he's sure he'll wait for the trail to officially reopen first. "If they're doing this much effort to keep people out you'd have to be a fool to go over the barriers (blocking the trail's entrance)," said Rutland." UPDATE: R.M. was two days shy of his 25th birthday when he and four others were swept away by the snow slide early in the afternoon of Jan. 27, 1999. Four of the injured were rescued over a nine-hour period by North Shore Rescue (NSR) volunteers. But R.M.'s body couldn't be found. It was finally recovered May 24 when a dog accompanying an NSR crew found it buried under more than a metre of snow and ice. The trail remained closed until June 18. On Oct. 31 the 2.9-kilometre trail was closed nightly from 4 p.m. to 7 a.m. It was closed until further notice at the beginning of December. The trail won't reopen until sometime this spring. Greater Vancouver Regional District watershed manager Ken Juvik said he has no knowledge of wintertime trail closures on the Grind prior to the tragedy. "It underscored the need to provide public safety on the hill," Juvik said. R.M. who officially died of suffocation, was the subject of a four-month saga that pitted the North Vancouver RCMP, NSR and a private company hired by the victim's father in a war of words. NSR volunteers tried to find R.M. in near-blizzard conditions after the avalanche, but the search was called off because officials felt another avalanche was imminent.
Analysis:
Rescue Mode: another party, North Shore Rescue
Source: Robert Galster, North Shore News
Contributing Cause(s): AVALANCHE |
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