CAUGHT ON CAMERA: Boise dad rescues son after fall into tree well
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BOISE — A Boise father caught a scary moment on camera during a ski trip to Brundage Mountain.
Winston Goss and his son Ethan were skiing down the mountain when the boy hit a jump and then vanished beneath the snow.
Ethan had fallen into a tree well – a treacherous patch of loose snow created when a tree’s lowest branches keep snow from packing into the area around the trunk.
Goss skied up to the spot where Ethan vanished. He could hear his son screaming but only saw his arm and part of his leg.
The father pulled Ethan up until his head and upper body was free from the snow.
“I am so happy I was above you,” Goss tells his son in the video.
In a Facebook post, Goss calls the moment “THE most frightening experience I have had as a father.”
“Fortunately I was there to pull my son out,” he wrote. “Please, take the time to know the dangers around you. Most importantly, never ski alone.”