Miraculously, an off-duty Unified Fire EMT heard his cries and called in search and rescue teams. It took eight hours to get him off the mountain.
“I ski about 150 days a season, you know, for hours on end on the weekends," he said. “My motto has always been, the best way to not get in an avalanche is, don't ski in avalanche terrain. But obviously I took it just one little step too far.”“I heard the big 'wumpf,' felt like the ground shake, and then all of a sudden there's this wall of snow coming down on me that envelops me," said Haussener."And then I thought, that was it.
“I was [like], you know, 'Guys, you gotta get me down or I'm gonna die up here,'" said Haussener."Like, 'I will freeze to death.'” “What's unusual right now is that that snow has worked down into the mid and the lower elevations so it's not just up along the ridges," said Craig Gordon, Avalanche Forecaster.Lots of trailheads and foothills are now avalanche territory, and Gordon recommends sticking with low-angle, gentle terrain for now.
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