SELKIRK, Idaho — A United States Forest Service Engine Captain died after being buried by an avalanche in Selkirk Mountain earlier this month, the Idaho Panhandle Avalanche Center (IPAC) confirmed.
David Macfarlane of Park City was one of a group of five backcountry skiers from Utah skiing a steep north-facing slope on the north side of Anderson Mountain, immediately west of the Lost Trail Ski Area boundary and only a few hundred feet inside Montana, when he was caught and carried in an avalanche.
David Macfarlane of Park City was one of a group of five backcountry skiers from Utah skiing a steep north-facing slope on the north side of Anderson Mountain, immediately west of the Lost Trail Ski Area boundary and only a few hundred feet inside Montana, when he was caught and carried in an avalanche.