How to Stay Alive In Deep Powder Snow: Avoiding Tree-Well Accidents

For skiers and snowboarders who seek out deep powder, the same snow that thrills can also kill. Experts who chart skiing injuries have documented a significant risk: suffocation after falling, often headfirst, into deep snow depressions around trees (tree wells) or even on open ground. Similar to av...

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Published in:The Physician and sportsmedicine 1999-12, Vol.27 (13), p.44-44
Main Author: Cadman, Robert
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Accidents
Biological and medical sciences
Medical sciences
Multiple trauma
Safety
Skiing
Snowboarding
Traumas. Diseases due to physical agents
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Summary:For skiers and snowboarders who seek out deep powder, the same snow that thrills can also kill. Experts who chart skiing injuries have documented a significant risk: suffocation after falling, often headfirst, into deep snow depressions around trees (tree wells) or even on open ground. Similar to avalanche-related deaths, most incidents have occurred at ski resorts in the western United States and Canada, though the same risk would be present wherever deep powder conditions are found.
ISSN:0091-3847
2326-3660
DOI:10.3810/psm.1999.12.1138