Avalanche

I'm wondering if most, if not all of those 17 a year are inbounds.
 
raisingarizona said:
That doesn't sound that bad to me when you think of the massive number of people recreating in big mountains in Switzerland.

Here in the US of A we average right around 43,000 auto related deaths every year. If we compare those numbers to the amount of avalanche deaths every year in this country it sort of makes the safety nerds that comment on social medias about avalanche accidents sound ridiculous. I mean, they all probably drive cars around.
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The biggest skiing related disaster was opening day in Kaprun Austria & involved a funicular train in a tunnel when there was a fire.
 
Benny Profane said:
I'm wondering if most, if not all of those 17 a year are inbounds.
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That’s the difficulty over there….defining inbounds. The face that released is a permanently closed/off limits area. Apparently the avy runout never reached the marked pistes (read: no mitigation of that face was necessary to keep “inbounds” terrain safe), and those who were caught/killed, apparently, ducked ropes to ski someplace they never should have been under normal circumstances, much less so with the extreme avy risk at the time. So, while that face was just below a lift (in a permanently closed area) was it inbounds?
 
tirolski said:
The biggest skiing related disaster was opening day in Kaprun Austria & involved a funicular train in a tunnel when there was a fire.
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Yaaah. Jeez, never want to die in an avi, but that's worse. Burning to death.
If I remember, there was a competitive American skier or boarder on that thing when it lit up. Tire blew, I think, and that started it.
 
Two dead, one rescued, in Utah avalanche on Lone Peak in LCC this morning. The area had received 30+ inches of snow earlier this week. Prayers to the families. Certainly not something you think would happen in May.
 
raisingarizona said:
That May sun gets hot really quick.
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My thoughts exactly. New snow + high solar radiation + temperature changes = increasing likelihood of the snow reacting. The snow doesn’t care what day the calendar reads.

We’re just getting our first heat wave of the season here in BC and for sure there will be a natural avalanche cycle. Whistler closed the alpine early today.
 
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