SAM Magazine - Squaw Valley, Calif., December 27, 2008 - In the second in-bounds avalanche fatality of the year, 21-year old Randall Davis died on December 21 after getting separated from a friend and caught in a slide in the Red Dog area. The victim was found by ski patrol who determined Davis had been caught by a slide after finding his ski protruding from a fresh debris field. Avalanche dogs and transceivers were used to locate the victim. The slide was the result of recent heavy snowfall, with totals exceeding four feet over 72 hours in some locations. The slide is the second in-bounds fatality of the season. Earlier in December, 27-year old Heather Gross of Salt Lake City, Utah, was buried just less than one hour in an in-bounds slide at Snowbird. Goss was alive and unconscious upon rescue. She died at an area hospital later that day.

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