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SoCal skier dies after being found unconscious, buried in deep snow on Mammoth Mountain
KTLA ^ | 01/29/2021 | Tracy Bloom

Posted on 01/30/2021 9:07:33 AM PST by BenLurkin

Around noon, the mountain’s ski patrol responded to a report of an unconscious male skier who had been found upside down in deep snow near where the Redwing and Hully Gully trails intersect, according to a Friday statement from Mammoth Mountain Ski Area. The location is near Chair 8 out of Canyon Lodge.

Other resort guests were already working to dig the skier out of the snow when the patrol arrived. They began CPR and also used an automated external defibrillator on the down skier because he didn’t have a pulse, according to the statement from the mountain.

The skier was then rushed to Mammoth Hospital where he was later pronounced dead. Authorities have not identified the man, describing him only as a 52-year-old from Oceanside.

A cause of death was not immediately known but is “related to the snow in some way,”...

No further details were provided about the incident. The Sheriff’s Office also reported Friday that a 55-year-old Michigan man died after being found unresponsive in a vehicle that was discovered buried in snow in a parking lot in Mammoth Lakes.

(Excerpt) Read more at ktla.com ...


TOPICS: Outdoors; Sports
KEYWORDS: california; mammothmountain; skier
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1 posted on 01/30/2021 9:07:33 AM PST by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

—another victim of the “China Virus”—(sarc)—


2 posted on 01/30/2021 9:10:12 AM PST by rellimpank (--don't believe anything the media or government says about firearms or explosives--)
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To: BenLurkin

Tree well? Very dangerous


3 posted on 01/30/2021 9:12:22 AM PST by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: BenLurkin

A cause of death was not immediately known but is “related to the snow in some way,”...

Imagine that.


4 posted on 01/30/2021 9:14:24 AM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: tet68

Covid for sure!


5 posted on 01/30/2021 9:17:10 AM PST by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives our fortunes and our sacred honor." )
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To: rellimpank

or Jim Carter, expert skier 1950 (interesting story)


6 posted on 01/30/2021 9:20:36 AM PST by max americana (FIRED LEFTARD employees at our office every election since 2008 and enjoyed seeing them cry.)
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To: Kartographer

Could be “climate change”, ya know... ;-)


7 posted on 01/30/2021 9:22:32 AM PST by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it.)
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To: BenLurkin

A cause of death was not immediately known but is “related to the snow in some way,”

May as well have said it was related to his birth...


8 posted on 01/30/2021 9:27:59 AM PST by maddog55 ((the only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!))
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To: cgbg

Buried in “climate change”. ❄☃️


9 posted on 01/30/2021 9:28:47 AM PST by ConjunctionJunction
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To: cgbg

We are both wrong most likely Trumps fault


10 posted on 01/30/2021 9:30:18 AM PST by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives our fortunes and our sacred honor." )
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To: BenLurkin

Yes, he was found dead, which is technically unconscious.


11 posted on 01/30/2021 9:35:52 AM PST by FoxInSocks ("Hope is not a course of action." -- M. O'Neal, USMC)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

Well, it very well could be a tree well. Dangerous indeed. You fall into one and there is almost no way to get out on your own, especially if your skis didn’t detach or if you bonked your head on the way in.


12 posted on 01/30/2021 9:36:02 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (Democracy Dies With Democrats)
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To: BenLurkin

Dying of Covid is so last year. Now it’s death by Covid vaccine.


13 posted on 01/30/2021 9:36:13 AM PST by libh8er
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To: cgbg

Climate Change, no doubt. That Global Warming dumped eight feet of snow on Mammoth. It would have been twenty feet if Biden hadn’t quickly shut down the Keystone pipeline.


14 posted on 01/30/2021 9:37:40 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (Democracy Dies With Democrats)
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To: BenLurkin; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ..

[snip] A cause of death was not immediately known but is “related to the snow in some way,” [/snip]

sounds like a Beetlejuice outtake.


15 posted on 01/30/2021 9:39:08 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: BenLurkin
People in Southern California are geniuses I tell you...

So he was head down in the snow for an extended period of time until others dug him out. And all they know is that it had something to do with the snow? I hope that doctor Fauci can come to the rescue.

It might have something to with a strange phenomena known as suffocation that you can simulate at home by putting a plastic bag over your head. Who knows why he was unable to get his head out of the snow before he lost consciousness.

16 posted on 01/30/2021 9:40:29 AM PST by fireman15
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To: BenLurkin

“...A cause of death was not immediately known but is “related to the snow in some way...”

“...found upside down in deep snow...”

It’s called suffocation, fellas.


17 posted on 01/30/2021 9:58:40 AM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: max americana

“Ape Canyon was reportedly the site of a violent encounter in 1924 between a group of miners and a group of apemen. These allegations were reported in the July 16, 1924, issue of The Oregonian.[1]”


18 posted on 01/30/2021 9:59:06 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: maddog55

It is! Life is the number one cause of death.


19 posted on 01/30/2021 10:00:07 AM PST by AFreeBird
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To: BenLurkin

You know... they never did catch that tree that killed Sony Bono while skiing... just sayin...


20 posted on 01/30/2021 10:01:06 AM PST by Skywise
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