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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]More information on the avalanche has dropped: https://www.sierrasun.com/news/avalanche-victims-buried-5-8-feet-in-small-area-near-runout-edge/[/quote]

Wow, hard to see the pictures.  It is such an enclosed area.  If they had followed what i understand to be basic rules for skiing in avalanche areas - don't bunch - this would have turned out far differently.  If they had left 20 feet or more between them, only 1-2 people might have been caught and there would have been many people available to dig them out.  I've read other stories posted here where the guideline is only allow 1 person at a time to cross open terrain.

Many bad decisions made that day.

Clearly they were rushing - but again as others have said they must have known their cars would be buried.  But maybe they were rushing because conditions were so bad - near white out, hard to space out too far without losing rack, and I know I read something linked here that said it was hard breaking the trail, so likely several people at the front were very bunched laying down the path.  So bad decisions compound bad decisions.  Decide to leave, encounter bad conditions, decide you've gone too far to turn back, rush to just get through it, and break common sense guidelines that say DON'T RUSH.  It's tragic.  [/quote]

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