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Archive Home > 2009 > March > 11 > Avalanche kills Enterprise skier

Avalanche kills Enterprise skier

By The Associated Press / The Bulletin
March 11, 2009

ENTERPRISE — An avalanche swept down on nine backcountry skiers in the Eagle Cap Wilderness in Wallowa County, burying three of them, one of whom died.

Wallowa County sheriff’s deputies say Roger Roepke, 50, of Enterprise, died Saturday when the quarter-mile-wide slide buried....

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