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Authorities in Central Oregon have been unable to determine whether a Myrtle Creek man who was killed early Friday at Mt. Bachelor may have been sleeping inside a snow cave.
Cameron J. Sharp, 18, died after being struck by a snow removal machine operating in the West Village parking lot at the resort outside Bend.
Sharp, who had been snowboarding for more than 10 years, had extensive snow camping experience. Relatives and friends believe it unlikely he placed his sleeping bag on the open ground. They believe he may have dug snow out from a mound and climbed inside to sleep.
“There’s no way to tell that,” said Sgt. Deron McMaster of the Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office.
Sharp, a 2005 graduate of South Umpqua High School in Tri City, had attended Lane Community College in Eugene fall term. Over the winter, he was working as a cook at a Eugene restaurant and taking a snowboarding class at LCC. With his snowboarding experience, he didn’t need the class but took it as a way to get to the mountain, his older brother, Jason Posey, said.
Sharp had traveled to Mt. Bachelor with students from the LCC snowboarding class on Thursday. The other students returned to Eugene that night, but Sharp planned to camp there and meet up with his roommates the next day. They planned to snowboard at Mt. Bachelor on Friday and then return to Eugene that evening.
McMaster said Sharp told his roommates he would be in the northwest corner of the parking lot. However, he didn’t articulate how he would camp.
“I don’t think he verbalized to anyone what he planned to do,” McMaster said.
Sharp’s roommates arrived at Mt. Bachelor at about 2 a.m. Friday, after driving after work from Eugene, said Sharp’s father, Steve Sharp. However, resort security guards prevented them from entering the property, which does not allow overnight camping.
Sharp was killed about two hours later. Neither officials from Mt. Bachelor nor Lt. Michael Johnson of the Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office would say whether it was a snow plow or a snow-blowing machine that struck him.
“There are still a lot of unanswered questions. There are questions that we may never know the answers to,” said Steve Sharp, who described his son as very safety conscious.
He and his older brother, Daniel, 22, had camped out in the snow many times, Steve Sharp said.
Steve Sharp said he and his wife, Mary, have been heartened by the support they have received from the local community since the death of their son.
“The heartwarming thing for us has been to hear how he touched the lives of so many people, many of whom we didn’t even realize he knew,” Steve Sharp said.
A memorial service for Cameron will be held at 2:30 p.m. Saturday at the Tri City Church of Christ, 180 Briggs Dr. A story earlier in the week listed a different time.
• You can reach reporter John Sowell at 957-4209 or by e-mail at jsowell@newsreview.info.
Cameron J. Sharp, 18, died after being struck by a snow removal machine operating in the West Village parking lot at the resort outside Bend.
Sharp, who had been snowboarding for more than 10 years, had extensive snow camping experience. Relatives and friends believe it unlikely he placed his sleeping bag on the open ground. They believe he may have dug snow out from a mound and climbed inside to sleep.
“There’s no way to tell that,” said Sgt. Deron McMaster of the Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office.
Sharp, a 2005 graduate of South Umpqua High School in Tri City, had attended Lane Community College in Eugene fall term. Over the winter, he was working as a cook at a Eugene restaurant and taking a snowboarding class at LCC. With his snowboarding experience, he didn’t need the class but took it as a way to get to the mountain, his older brother, Jason Posey, said.
Sharp had traveled to Mt. Bachelor with students from the LCC snowboarding class on Thursday. The other students returned to Eugene that night, but Sharp planned to camp there and meet up with his roommates the next day. They planned to snowboard at Mt. Bachelor on Friday and then return to Eugene that evening.
McMaster said Sharp told his roommates he would be in the northwest corner of the parking lot. However, he didn’t articulate how he would camp.
“I don’t think he verbalized to anyone what he planned to do,” McMaster said.
Sharp’s roommates arrived at Mt. Bachelor at about 2 a.m. Friday, after driving after work from Eugene, said Sharp’s father, Steve Sharp. However, resort security guards prevented them from entering the property, which does not allow overnight camping.
Sharp was killed about two hours later. Neither officials from Mt. Bachelor nor Lt. Michael Johnson of the Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office would say whether it was a snow plow or a snow-blowing machine that struck him.
“There are still a lot of unanswered questions. There are questions that we may never know the answers to,” said Steve Sharp, who described his son as very safety conscious.
He and his older brother, Daniel, 22, had camped out in the snow many times, Steve Sharp said.
Steve Sharp said he and his wife, Mary, have been heartened by the support they have received from the local community since the death of their son.
“The heartwarming thing for us has been to hear how he touched the lives of so many people, many of whom we didn’t even realize he knew,” Steve Sharp said.
A memorial service for Cameron will be held at 2:30 p.m. Saturday at the Tri City Church of Christ, 180 Briggs Dr. A story earlier in the week listed a different time.
• You can reach reporter John Sowell at 957-4209 or by e-mail at jsowell@newsreview.info.
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