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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We don’t know the why they decided to hear out from the huts. The survivors will have to tell us.

What appears to be known is
- this was backcountry
- these were experienced skiers 
- these were adventure seekers 
- they had 4 guides

Sad all around. And no, nobody is excited, thid is not like Camp Mystic.

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Is that a lot of guides for the number of clients? I get the message now that they were headed back because it was the end of the rental/lease whatever you call it and not because of worries about running out of provisions. Do the people who run those cabins give the option to stay if there is bad weather?[/quote]

That is what I thought too. Four guides for 9 clients is a very high ratio. Since these were local skiers who did this on an annual basis, I wonder if some of the guides went as friends and not necessarily hired guides.

I posted earlier that I hope that if the expiration of the lodging period was a contributing factor, hopefully this will lead to a policy change for touring huts to let people stay in these situations.

I don’t tour, but I live in an area where people regularly do backcountry touring. There are a ton of people who do what’s called sidecountry or slack country touring where you access through a ski resort or an easily accessible trailhead. Just in the past few days, there have been three local deaths from avalanches. One snowmobiler, one backcountry skier, and most tragically, an 11 year old girl who ducked a rope with her family at Brighton.

I’ll bet that Brighton closes the gate to the area that the girl died. That is what park city did after a few sidecountry avalanche gates. The areas will still be accessible from the resorts, but it will require a hike that will dissuade most people. It seems to be the compromise between safety and not encroaching on people’s liberty to do risky things.

RIP to the deceased Tahoe skiers and to Madalyn Etias from Rochester, MA

https://www.fox13now.com/news/local-news/northern-utah/search-and-rescue-teams-respond-to-avalanche-near-brighton-ski-resort[/quote]

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