wrote in message
oups.com...

The pilot's name was Berk Snow. The passenger was his wife, who suffered
a
broken neck and multiple-day exposure (the crash may have happened as
early
as Thursday) apparently up on a ridge where she was rescued.

Sorry to hear he was a friend of yours... how much experience did he
have with back-country flying?

I don't know for sure. We exchanged a few e-mails but I never had a chance
to meet him in person. The forums he and I were on is pretty shaken up
about it, though. He was a member of the backcountrypilot.org forum.

-c