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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Bad judgment is not an accident, it’s negligence. [/quote]

+1 Some people never want to accept resposibility for their choices and the results of their decisions.  [/quote]

You mean the dead ones?[/quote]

Well people keep saying their families should sue. That’s not accepting responsibility. [/quote]
There were three fatalities that same week inbounds of ski areas (2 at Heavenly, 1 at Northstar). DH himself pulled someone out of a tree well at Palisades, and there were a few other successful rescues that week as well. While I'm fairly certain I would not have gone out backcountry skiing in those conditions, as a grad student I would ski Tuckerman's Ravine in the middle of a NorEaster which carries a very different set of risks.

There is a lot that is unknown about what happened, and it also raises a lot of questions about shared responsibility with paid guides. I've only used paid guides twice, for relatively safe activities in foreign countries where I didn't know the landscape.

I'm interested in how this plays out, since it hits very close to home for me. But I would disagree with anyone who suggests anything about this trip is obvious, especially since there is a lot more information to come out (most importantly whatever the surviving guide says).[/quote]

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