The news of Doug Coombs’ death hit the ski world hard this past few days — as it should. Doug wasn’t known for taking unnecessary risks, indeed, it sounds like he was in guide mode and being careful when tragedy struck
Eulogies
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Doug Coombs Killed in France Yesterday — fell down steep terrain at La Grave
by Lou Dawsonby Lou DawsonI’m stunned and grieved to hear about this ski touring accident in the backcountry of France, we’re so sad, Doug Coombs is a hero to everyone in our family and to every backcountry skier I know.
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Sport plan today was a powder hit in the morning, then off to the OR show in the afternoon. With more than a foot of fresh last night we were set. Hooked up with Poly McLean and Wizard of the…
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I spoke with someone who knows about Cerro Mercedario, the mountain Carl died on. He said the snow tends to become very icy in this region of the Andes. I have no wish to pick apart Carl’s accident as I…
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Photographer and ski mountaineer Carl Skoog had been killed in a fall while ski mountaineering in South America, January 2006. I met Carl for the first time in 1995
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Colorado Friends Hut Founder Jim Gebhart — Goodbye, he lived in Crested Butte, Colorado.