Dog Feared Lost in Killer Slide Turns Up Days Later
By Steve Casimiro, Adventure Journal on January 6th, 2012
The avalanche that caught and buried Bozeman’s Dave Gaillard near Cooke City was thought to have taken out his Welsh corgi Ole, but the dog turned up four days later and four miles away at the hotel where the skier and his wife had stayed. Ole was hungry and thirsty, and he plopped down at the door of the room they’d rented. Gaillard’s wife Kerry survived the slide after he shouted for her to take cover in the trees. Ole’s survival was a welcome bit of cheer in the midst of the tragedy. “The family is super excited,” said Mark Staples, of the Gallatin National Forest Avalanche Center, which investigated the incident. “It’s one bright spot for them.”
