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Wednesday, March 12, 2014Area:
Billings, MTA snowmobiler died after he tried to jump a creek near Cooke City, Mont., and crashed.
Park County officials stated that the man crashed shortly after noon Thursday and that search and rescue members arrived within minutes. The man died at the scene after resuscitation efforts failed.
The coroner’s office will release the man’s name and hometown after his family is notified.
Date:
Saturday, February 22, 2014Area:
Spokane, WAA Montana man has died in an avalanche while riding his snowmobile on the Idaho-Montana border.
Authorities say a group of four men on snowmobiles triggered the avalanche about 1:15 p.m. Saturday while riding in the West Cabinet Range about 15 miles southwest of Troy, Mont.
The Montana-based Flathead Avalanche Center says two snowmobilers were buried, but one had his face exposed and was dug out with no injuries.
The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Department today identified the deceased snowmobiler as 49-year-old Bryan William Harlow of Libby, Mont.