Trooper Anderson was airlifted out of the area late yesterday, alive and well. To those not familiar with the area, its remote, there's still an unusually high snowpack, over alot of avalanche terrain. Top it off, the Cascades took an inch or two of rain over the weekend, adding to an already high avalanche danger. All of which I believe contributed to Anderson's predicament and to the difficulty of his rescue.

Thanks go out to SAR - and SARs everywhere - who risked their own lives to make this rescue.

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