CUSHING George Lyman Hoyt, 94, passed peacefully from this life early on May 10, 2023, in the company of his loving family. He was born May 25, 1928, in Boston, Massachusetts, to Dr. Lyman H. Hoyt, M.D., and Helen M. (Sawyers) Hoyt. George was.
The Ravinos ski and snowboard club patched in six new members on Friday in a celebration dating back to the 1972-73 season in Vail. After watching dozens of people attempt backflips and double backflips on.
The men who started a March 2020 avalanche above Eisenhower/Johnson Memorial Tunnels pleaded guilty Monday to misdemeanor charges of reckless endangerment. “It would have been ridiculous to pass up 20 hours of community service and gamble with a financial loss for the rest of our lives. So it’s sad to bend over and get strong-armed by the DA, but that’s what we had to do,” one of the men said after the sentencing.
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A case that drew the attention of backcountry recreators across the Mountain West has come to a close.
Evan Hannibal and Tyler Dewitt
set off a backcountry avalanche in Colorado more than a year ago. That slide covered a service road and destroyed an avalanche mitigation device.
They were then charged with reckless endangerment, and prosecutors planned to use the snowboarders own camera footage that they gave to the Colorado Avalanche Information Center. That alarmed some backcountry experts, who thought this kind of prosecution might discourage backcountry recreators from reporting avalanches, which could have deadly consequences.
Summit County District Attorney Heidi McCollum argued