Man buried while snow biking in Idaho, marking season’s first U.S. avalanche death
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BOISE (Idaho Statesman) — A Treasure Valley man died in an avalanche north of Boise over the weekend, marking the first avalanche death in the country this season.
The Adams County Sheriff’s Office said it received a report at 12:21 p.m. Sunday that an avalanche had buried someone near Wilson Creek Trail in the Anderson Creek area, west of Cascade. The sheriff’s office identified the victim as 41-year-old Jason Haines, of Kuna.
Snowmobilers in the area helped get Haines out of the snowpack, but Haines died from his injuries at the scene after life-saving measures were unsuccessful, the sheriff’s office said in a news release.
The Payette Avalanche Center said Haines was one of two people on snow bikes who triggered the avalanche near Lookout Peak.
“The slide was reported to be relatively small, but (Haines) was carried into a terrain trap and buried deeply,” the center said. “He was found with an avalanche beacon and extricated but did not survive.”
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