The slide was a ‘bulls-eye clue’ for snowmachiners headed to the springtime ritual in the Hoodoo Mountains next week, avalanche forecasters say.
Updated: April 4, 2019 Joshua Hale sits atop the March 30, 2019 avalanche that buried him. He was able to dig himself out. But that whirlwind of crushing snow, darkness and speed was long enough for Hale to prepare for death, go over memories of his wife and each of their 10 children including a newborn, then snap back to the reality of trying to survive.
An avalanche in the Hoodoo Mountains March 30, 2019 buried two of the Hale brothers. Both were able to get out on their own. “Everybody in the party needs all three pieces of gear before they even leave the parking lot,” said Oldmixon, who interviewed one of the members of the Hale party Tuesday and said the slide measured 1,500 feet from top to bottom.
“I was full throttle, riding an avalanche, going faster than the avalanche,” he said. “I don’t know how fast I was going, but I was going really fast.”The machine landed nose down and the force of the landing flipped Hale into the air. He landed in a wave of snow that pressed down on him and pushed him deeper, compressing atop his body as it moved through a confined gully.
“I just kind of blew out of the snow,” he said. His brother Joseph was hugging him and crying. Joseph barely escaped the avalanche himself. Joshua said his emotions quieted to near-numbness.
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