Backcountry Incidents

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Re: Backcountry Incidents

Post by Capercaillie » Fri Apr 04, 2025 8:37 pm

Lhartley wrote:
Mon Mar 17, 2025 11:01 am
She's spicy out in them hills. RIP:(

Both incidents involved groups

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/ ... -1.7484608
I was looking at MINs and the March 14 incident reports are very noteworthy IMO:

https://avalanche.ca/map?panel=fatal-ac ... 2025-03-14

https://avalanche.ca/map?panel=fatal-ac ... 2025-03-14

Both avalanches started in treed areas where the skiers must have thought they were safe.
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Re: Backcountry Incidents

Post by Lhartley » Fri Apr 04, 2025 11:34 pm

The first one is Black Prince, and there's not a whole lot there that I would consider low consequence. Especially the area here I think called the "tree triangle". Not low angles and not dense enough trees to create significant structure to prevent complex snow layers. If it moves you're getting taken into another tree and suffering mechanical injury
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Re: Backcountry Incidents

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