April 9 Tohmi O'ne avalanche

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Two skiers were killed by avalanche at Tohmi-o'ne, Hakuba, Nagano on April 9th around 1:00pm. There 12 people skied in two groups. One group of 6 people were attacked at apx.1,700m alt in a small valley of Tohmi ridge. Two were buried. One was found dead soon. One was found dead five hours later.

http://www.news24.jp/56010.html

http://sbc21.co.jp/my-cgi/sbc_news.cgi?page=seventop&date=20060409&id=0106444&action=details

 

Update: Victims are two males (34 from Nagano and 41 from Tokyo).

Update: Two (female 39 from Tokyo and male 44 from Nagano) broke bones of arms and shoulders. Remaining two were safe.

 

Yahoo! Map (Contour:1,700m on Tohmi ridge):

http://map.yahoo.co.jp/pl?nl=36.39.17.89...7%f2%c7%cf&sc=5

 

Comment: The report tells this area is getting to be a popular BC tour course. I've never been there.

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this one is near the route that we skied last year with dav and dean or its the route that I sked with janus

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I saw a report told the reporter(a skier with four) met the the party just before the accedint on Apr 9. He skied with passing them so he did not see the accident. Both he and the party skied down to north from Ichinosekami(I am not sure how read "一の背髪"). He dropped down to right side once, then was back to the north ridge (more hard). The party skied down north ridge straight (more safe), and met him at a point of north ridge. They aprted, and later the party met the tragedy on apx.1700m of the north ridge reportedly.

 

Comment:

This web page shows the ski route well. The report date is Mar 5, 2006.

http://www.h6.dion.ne.jp/~tatsuno/2006/itinosegami/itinosegami2006.html

The bule line is climbing, and the red line is descending in the map. The climbing start point is the top lift stn of Goryu Tohmi ski resort. The destination is Hakuba 47 ski resort, the up right most of the map. Some warn the avalanche risk is even higher on the path along Hirakawa river than the north ridge. This is a good report.

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it says ichinosegami on the link