CAIC: Colorado Avalanche Information Center

2024/01/11 - Idaho - Stevens Peak, Lone Lake Drainage, Bitterroot Mountains

Published 2024/01/14 by Spencer Logan - Forecaster, CAIC

Avalanche Details

  • Location: Stevens Peak, Lone Lake Drainage, Bitterroot Mountains
  • State: Idaho
  • Date: 2024/01/11
  • Time: 12:00 AM
  • Summary Description: 3 caught, 1 killed
  • Primary Activity: Backcountry Tourer
  • Primary Travel Mode: Unknown

Number

  • Caught: 0
  • Fully Buried: 0
  • Injured: 0
  • Killed: 1

Avalanche

  • Type: --
  • Trigger: AS - Skier
  • Trigger (subcode): u - An unintentional release
  • Size - Relative to Path: --
  • Size - Destructive Force: --
  • Sliding Surface: --

Site

  • Slope Aspect: --
  • Site Elevation: --
  • Slope Angle: --
  • Slope Characteristic: --

Accident Summary

PRELIMINARY: A backcountry skier was killed in an avalanche in Shoshone County, Idaho, Near Stevens Peak, on January 11, 2024. 

Law enforcement received a satellite message alert about an avalanche on the afternoon of January 11, 2024. Multiple agencies participated in the search and rescue. Two men were found and taken to medical care. A third man was not found. On January 12, search and rescue teams recovered the body of the third man. 

Idaho Panhandle Avalanche Center preliminary statement