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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow, tragedy, exclamation point!

We make better decisions and are better people. Smug smile.

FAFO, the tension builds…

They’re rich, white, privileged women and bad things happened to them…yes, yes, right there, oh yeahhhhh![/quote]

It is what it is. They rolled the dice and lost.[/quote]

Harsh but I agree.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/us/avalanche-tahoe-huts.html?unlocked_article_code=1.N1A.BL1d.EQGhJFXjvC3w&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

How many times have you inadvertently escaped death or major injury in your everyday life? How many times have you slightly paused at green light and watched a car blow through their red light? How many times has someone at home left the stove on or a lit candle? How many times have you caught yourself from stumbling down the stairs or on an icy sidewalk?

This group’s reservation slot had expired. I wonder how much of their decision to leave was due to the fact that another group was coming in. Many places in storm prone areas have a stash of sleeping bags and a blanket policy that allows you to stay if you don’t want to travel. Resorts in little cottonwood canyon (Alta, snowbird) and less often in big cottonwood canyon (solitude, Brighton) have a policy called interlodge in which you must stay inside due to avalanche risk. They can call it at any time and even if you are just there for the day, you must stay inside. There was one in 2021 that lasted 3-4 days. During big storm cycles, I don’t go there because of the risk of being interlodged.

Reasoning will always be faulty, big groups will always have dynamics that do not allow for quieter voices, and forecasts will always be imperfect. But at least we can try to enact policies that remove some pressures like the end of a reservation. [/quote]

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