Posted by: dougwalkabout
Re: Jess Roskelly presumed dead in BC avalanche - 04/21/19 03:39 AM
This happened on the Alberta side, if the news reports are accurate.
I am not a climber, let alone an elite climber like these gentlemen clearly were. So, my calculus of risk/reward is probably amateurish in the extreme.
But I do watch mountain conditions. There have been heavy thaws and freezes this winter in the Canadian Rockies, interspersed with heavy dumps of snow. I believe the avalanche forecasts have been very high on the scale. Spring makes these increasingly variable -- a morning slope will hold, an afternoon slope will slip.
I bear them no ill will; given the tributes, they have contributed much.
But from my chair here, I have to wonder why they were out.
My 2c.
Posted by: hikermor
Re: Jess Roskelly presumed dead in BC avalanche - 04/21/19 02:12 PM
"We took chances, we knew we took them. Things have come out against us, therefore we have no cause for regret."
Robert Falcon Scott - last page of his diary