1 dead, another injured in Golden avalanche

An Emergency GPS Spot Beacon was activated after two members of the party were buried in the slide.

Police said a 64-year-old man from Canmore, Alta., was flown to Calgary by helicopter in critical condition, while a 58-year-old woman from Calgary was transported by helicopter to Kamloops with serious injuries that weren’t believed to be life-threatening.

This follows the death of a 30 year old Calgary man when an avalanche struck 4 people west of golden yesterday.

A Calgary man is dead and another man is injured after an avalanche near Golden Saturday. No names have been released.

Avalanche Canada issued a warning for B.C.’s Central and Southern Interior Ranges from Friday, February 19 to Monday, February 22, recommending “backcountry users avoid large slopes in the alpine and at treeline, especially slopes that have not been previously heavily ridden”.

He said the Canadian Avalanche Centre does its best to warn people of poor conditions.

He said this layer has fail a “number of times” over the past few days, resulting in some close calls. “And with the amount of snow that’s on top of it we could be seeing some very large and risky avalanches”.

Nearly a month ago, five snowmobilers were killed in an avalanche in B.C.