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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just read the article. Very interesting. I like to think that I would have been the dissenting voice that insisted on staying the the cabin but I’m not sure I would have been. I’ve hung 2 juries so maybe I would have! [/quote]

How about dissenting before embarking on such a trip?! [/quote]

Yeah I like to think I would have skipped the trip due to the weather forecast! Of course people like me generally are not drawn to adventure sports :) my friend who is pretty much understands and accepts the risks she takes. The problem is people who are less experienced and don’t understand. [/quote]

The NYT article actually says that the forecast was considered a positive because every skier wants to ski on fresh powder. They weren't thinking danger until they were in the hut making decisions about how to proceed once the avalanche danger was already increasing. AND they didn't take the lowest risk route out of the mountains (the road, which would have put them far from the cars).

Probably they should have stayed until the storm ended - the article states there was plenty of food and it would have been safe to do so - and then skied out via the access road with the least avalanche danger and had a company van pick them up on the main road.[/quote]

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