Helmet cam video captures moment a dog is rescued after being swept away by an avalanche and buried in the snow for over 20 minutes. One of the men involved in the rescue told ABC News the dog, named Apollo, appeared to be fine other than an injured leg.
Two college students, Bobby White and Josh Trujillo, found a dog buried in an avalanche while backcountry skiing on Berthoud Pass in Colorado.the popular Berthoud Pass area in Colorado when they saw a cloud of snow erupt -- a sign of an avalanche occurring -- at least a thousand feet away.
Every person was accounted for, but a dog had been caught and buried in a debris field Trujillo described as 300 yards long and 50 yards wide. Once they realized there were no buried humans, their search for the dog began. Using their probe poles, which are typically around 8-feet-long, they poked through the snow hoping to strike the buried dog.Robert White
"But then the numbers drop catastrophically," its website says, going down to only 20-30% after 45 minutes.Trujillo and White had decided that morning to avoid avalanche-prone slopes due to the"high" danger rating of the snowpack that day determined by the Colorado Avalanche Information Center. But the search placed them right below a threatening ridge.
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