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The Colorado Sun The avalanche that killed snowmobiler Michael Tony Westall wrapped 2,000 feet around the south face of Mount Epworth. This photo was taken Feb. 16, after additional snow and drifting. Photo from Grand County Search and Rescue / Colorado Avalanche Information Center
DENVER The father and son had throttled their snowmobiles up the steep, east-facing slope below Mount Epworth several times that Sunday afternoon. Dad 58-year-old Michael “Tony” Westall went for a final charge up the hill. But instead of turning his machine around the high-point of his arc, he kept going across the hill. His 18-year-old son watched as the avalanche released and Westall and his sled were swept down the slope and into the small Pumphouse Lake at the bottom of the snowfield above treeline near Rollins Pass. ....
Time: 12:30 PM (Estimated) Summary Description: 1 backcountry skier caught, buried, and killed Avalanche Comments: This was a soft slab avalanche triggered by a skier. The avalanche was small relative to the path and destructive enough to injure, bury, or kill a person. The avalanche failed on an old layer of faceted snow.. The crown face of the avalanche was 3 to 7 feet deep, 400 feet wide, and the debris ran about 400 feet. At the crown of the avalanche the faceted snow layer was three to seven feet below the snowpack surface. One hundred vertical feet down slope from the crown face, the snowpack was shallower, not wind affected, and the weak layer was only two feet from the surface. This was a Persistent Slab avalanche. ....