Posted on 01/28/2008 3:21:39 PM PST by RDTF
(01-28) 12:52 PST LAKE TAHOE -- The president of a San Francisco green technology company was killed while skiing at the Homewood Ski Resort near Lake Tahoe, authorities said today.
Tyler A. Palmer, 37, was found unresponsive at the base of a tree about 1:52 p.m. Sunday, the Placer County Sheriff's Department said.
Skiers found Palmer on the Hobbit Land ski run, head-first in the well of a tree. Hobbit Land is a black diamond run, signifying it is for advanced skiers, according to the resort's Web site.
Medics tried to revive Palmer, without success, and he was pronounced dead at the scene at 2:28 p.m.
The Sheriff's Department said there was a light wind and snow was falling at the time of the incident. Palmer's death appears to have been an accident, authorities said.
Anyone who saw the accident is asked to contact the Sheriff's Department North Lake Tahoe dispatch center at (530) 581-6330.
Palmer was the founder and president of GreenMountain Engineering. According to the company Web site, the firm was established in 2003 in San Francisco. GreenMountain is a design engineering consultancy serving clean technology companies.
Before founding the firm, Palmer worked at Signature BioScience, a now-defunct biotechnology company in San Francisco, and at NASA, according to an online biography. He earned a master's degree in aerospace engineering at the University of Colorado, the biography said.
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Ala Sonny Bono.
Wow! Just WOW! A greenie attacked and killed by a tree!
RIP.
Is the tree ok?
(sarc)
Ouch.
strange irony there
A real tree-hugger.
Mother Nature will get you every time.
I wonder if this gentleman was skiing "out of bounds"....
I wonder if this gentleman was skiing "out of bounds"....
I bet he drowned in the 24" of powder that fell this weekend. Sometimes if your skis don't fall off you can really struggle in this situation.
This is tragic, and very ironic, too.
(Cue theme song from “George of the Jungle.”)
This is a great tragedy - no joke.
Here is a man who worked hard to help companies do what they need and want to do to stay in business, but to do it with a minimal harmful footprint on the environment. There's nothing "liberal" about that, my Freeper FRiends - the man was in business, serving other businesses!
Not only that, but he died skiing, a sport I love, and at Homewood, just about the most beautiful resort in Tahoe - it sits RIGHT on Lake Tahoe, giving you a view of the amazing blue lake the whole way down.
RIP. And let's show thoughtfulness on this.
Mountain > Green
Trees are on the edges of the runs. Get outta control and you will kiss one easily.
I’ve done it. It hurts. Some trails are pretty narrow, also.
Now it’s the trees that are killing us.
I’ve been hunting deer and other game in the woods for many of my 58 years...never had a tree be so downright disrespectin’.
There aren't single trees, but as a larger grove sometimes, sure. And of course there's the sides of the run.
I'm guessing he wasn't wearing a helmet. Of course, depending on the speed he hit with, wearing one might have saved him, but still with brain injury.
I was just telling my daughter the dangers of tree wells while we were up sledding.
Died in his own Carbon Footprint
young guy, too. Very sad.
Must be an evil Weyerhauser tree.....employed by the greedy rich ski slope moguls.
Ironic death...
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more here:
http://cbs5.com/local/palmer.ski.accident.2.639754.html
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Placer County Sheriff’s Sergeant John Giovanini says 37-year-old Tyler A. Palmer was found upside down in a snow bank under a tree Sunday afternoon.
A passing ski patrolman helped dig him out and started CPR until paramedics arrived, but those efforts were unsuccessful.
Palmer was declared dead at the scene about 45 minutes later.
Authorities say Palmer was skiing in bounds on an expert black diamond run. The weather may have made for low visibility.
His death is being called accidental.
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"...harmful footprint on the environment..." tells me all I need to know about where you stand politically.
That's kind of a strange, 'Catch-22' warning bell phrase for someone on a supposedly Conservative Republican website, eh?
So excuse me if I take your opinions with a huge dose of Epsom Salt and really careful scrutiny before I consider them valid.
Have a plan of what you will do if you go down. The following steps may help:
Resist the urge to struggle violently. In tree well experiments people found that the more they struggled, the deeper they sank and the more quickly they became immobilized.
Make a breathing space around your face. Then move your body carefully in a rocking manner Instead of panicking, try first to hollow out the snow and give you space and air.
Stay calm. Experts advise to stay calm while waiting for assistance as this helps conserves air and extend your time of survival. Hopefully, your partner will have seen you go down and will come to your rescue. If not, your chances of survival are improved if you maintain your air space.
Too cynical to include a request for prayers?
At least his death was organic...
a tree finally hugged him back...
Ala Sonny Bono
Ala Michael Kennedy
There seems to be a pattern here of ansulary level political figures biting the dust in the same way.
A conspiracy theorist may want to examine for a fresh set of parallel snow ski tracks evident to each side of the tree.
Ouch. What a way to go.
Trees are why I ski in the dead center of the run. And wear a helmet.
When this happened to my brother (who survived), but when they find you at the base of a hill. Usually that means you lost control and went off the trail. In my brother’s case he fell over 50 feet.
Yes, they do.
Well said!
As far as I know, if you want treeless resort skiing anywhere on this continent, Arapahoe Basin Colorado is about all there is.
I hope he has one of them “green” burials.
PLUS, he’s looking for “thoughtful” responses when we have a chance to mock a man’s death ‘cause we find his politics suspect.
Very strange.
If anything actually destroys the environment, it’s ski resorts. Thousands of trees are destroyed as well as animal habitats- all in the name of recreation. Amazingly, greenies like this guy and countless greenie movie stars seem to be the most avid skiers.
Goodness, I’ve spent a lot of time skiing deep powder among the trees, and have fallen into more than one of them. Usually it was the occasion for laughter. I had no idea that tree wells could actually eat people!
My technique for escaping from the tree well involves finding my skis (never ski the trees with bindings alone or you WILL lose a ski and end up walking out) and placing it in a horizontal position on the side of the well, then using it as a stair to climb out. I also pull myself up by hanging on the branches. Sometimes it isn’t easy, and it’s possible to get quite out of breath and exhausted.
Perhaps the worst part is that the tree absorbs any sound, so your calls for help are smothered and people skiing only a short distance away may not be able to hear you.
I don’t ski but if I did I would stick to water skiing. No trees.
...that might have been his problem or he just lost control.
Now as far as "black" humor.... c'mon let's not lose our heads about this.
Cause arguing with Freepers is like banging your head on a hard object.
I wonder if this will be reported in the usual liberal fashion?
Like "A tree killed an environmental entrepreneur, marking another environmentalist killed since Bush declared an end to hostilities in Iraq."
And your sophomoric response tells ALL of us exactly where YOU stand mentally. Don't hurt your neck trying to maintain eye contact, our toenails are clean.
Conservation, that is, minimizing one's negative impact to the natural environment, is NOT a Liberal idea -- they don't hold some kind of moral ownership to it -- it is a Conservative idea arising out of the patently biblical concept of stewardship. You don't just go out and thrash the world, because you have respect for what it is, and understand that thrashing things for the sake of thrashing things puts you somewhere below the level of even Beavis and Butthead. In fact, you actually -- and I know this is the part that's difficult to get -- it is the concept of stewardship that is the impetus to exert some effort to NOT trash things whenever it is reasonable.
The mere fact that somebody's got a company that attempts to help other enterprises move forward without leaving unnecessary environmental damage behind them does not make that person a Gorebot. They might be one, but that isn't necessarily so. In fact, they equally well could be a Conservative voter trying to keep other companies in business, and out of hot water with the burgeoning regulations and environmental laws.
All that thick, heavy snow, combined with falls off the tree while a person struggles, can kill a person in minutes. I had no idea they had an entire website devoted to this problem, until I started searching images for this article. It seems it could rival collisions as a leading cause of skiing deaths.
My point in posting to Yossarian was his non-satirical use of a favorite catch phrase of those non-Conservative (Cannot use 'Liberal' here, Yossarian said so!) folks championing Global Warming and such other Algore hugging environmental crapola.
I reread my post #27 above and discover that I did not find me mocking anyone's death, yet you seem to be disappointed I didn't.
BTW I am sure that even Hill/Bill Clinton, Joe Stalin and Pol Pot all had thoughtful moments once in a blue moon, but that does not make me want to follow their politics.
Now, just to make your day, let me say in reference to the deceased green SF skier, I wonder if he recently changed his political allegiance from Hillary to Obama? {Rimshot!}
I think there’s the difference: I’ve never skied in the far West and have confined my skiing to the Rockies and the Eastern slopes. The snow in the Rockies is “champagne powder,” so light it floats in the air over the valleys on a sunny afternoon. It would be hard to suffocate in that unless one were knocked unconscious and fell face-down. The stuff you have in the Sierras would be far more frightening and dangerous. I shudder to realize now that falling in tree wells once made me laugh and curse, since I didn’t know it could be fatal in some areas.
re: mocking..never said it was you.
But, did you spot the 20 other posts that did?
I find it repugnant when people ( not you)
let partisan zealotry trump humanity.
beit’s not all about you.
How do you do that? If cremated, you release greenhouse gases in the air. If buried, you take precious property that could be used for wilderness areas.
I guess you could leave him out for a while and let the animals pick at his bones.
Gadzooks, did I step on your toenails, clean or otherwise?
When someone starts talking like a duck, I generally hear quacks. "...harmful footprint on the environment..." quacks like an Algore duck in my view whether you like it or not.
Now, as to your "...it is the concept of stewardship that is the impetus to exert some effort to NOT trash things whenever it is reasonable." I do understand that and have no objection to it but I still find the green wankers are never "reasonable" in their views that place any land, insect or animal above the needs of humans.
Need I suggest drilling for oil in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge or off the coast of California or Florida? Perhaps I should mention preventing the Navy from using sonar or any of thousands of other green ideas I don't cotton to?
Heck, if it was up to the sharks, bears and wolves, we just be between meal snacks.
BTW my low moron mentality tells me your 'AUT VINCERI AUT MORI' should be Aut vincere aut mori - Either conquer or die
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