People just don't get. For the 2nd week in a row, another avalanche death...
The back country avalanche forecast is currently rated considerable to extreme. We had a weekend hike/snowshoeing trip planned but once again have had to call it off due to the high avalanche risk.
A massive avalanche in British Columbia's mountainous backcountry on Friday killed at least one snowmobiler, injured two others and sparked a search for anyone else caught in the second deadly slide in the area in the past week.
The RCMP confirmed the mid-afternoon avalanche happened on Eagle Pass Mountain, 15 kilometres west of Revelstoke, not far from where two snowmobilers were killed and 31 were injured in a slide March 13.
"The avalanche … has been categorized as a large slide," said Cpl. Dan Moskaluk. News article link
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Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.
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