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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I doubt the survivors will offer any details that provide closure. They knew the risk, they still headed out and they died. End of story. [/quote]

But maybe the guides assured them it was safe and they relied on them.[/quote]

I doubt the guides said that. Most likely it was - we have to get home so let's take path B because the risk is lower not that there was no risk. The survivors might feel pressure to also change the narrative so the families can sue. So I don't know that I'd trust what they say either. [/quote]

Right so they relied on guides who should have known better or taken the risk more seriously.[/quote]

A Stanford grad who skis often in the back country can't read and pay attention to weather reports and think hmmmn sounds dangerous?[/quote]

Stanford doesn't have classes on interpreting weather reports. [/quote]
What do you mean interpreting weather reports? You have to be able to read to get into Stanford let alone graduate. The weather reports clearly stated significant avalanche risk before they left for the trip and while there. No interpretation is needed unless you’re the PP who was trolling that avalanches are new.[/quote]

Those are some pretty big words. [/quote]
Still trolling I see.[/quote]

Fine. How about Dunning--Kruger?[/quote]

+1. Many people familiar with this area and backcountry skiing having come out saying that the behavior of this group is inexplicable given the conditions and the warnings that were known.

These were wealthy, intelligent, accomplished people. They could afford to extend the trip, cancel the trip, whatever. As my husband always says when he declines trip insurance, “if we can afford to take the trip, we can afford to not take it too.”[/quote]

IMO it was the group dynamic. I run in a similar circle and finding the time on 6 people's schedules? That happens like once a decade. My guess is there was a lot of pressure to not reschedule this trip. But maybe the person here saying they are a friend knows better. But I doubt this group gets together more than once per year at the most.

If this was one person's trip? Canceled, easy. [/quote]

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