As I’ve written about numerous times here at WildSnow dot com, It turns out that the more avalanche education you have, the more likely you are to get hurt or killed in an avalanche. So if someone tells you to “take an avalanche class,”
avalanche safety
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Mount Princeton Backcountry Ski Descent – Colorado Fourteeners
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The two men (one died in the avalanche) were crampon climbing up the Cristo Couloir, a large couloir and frequent avalanche path on 14,265 feet Quandary Peak’s south face.
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News media is reporting that a skier died today in an avalanche on Quandary Peak, a fourteener near Breckenridge, Colorado. It sounds like two men headed up to climb the peak during high hazard, with no avalanche rescue gear and…
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We immediately wondered if the guide had lost control of the group in some way (perhaps simply because the victim chose not to follow his instructions.
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Aspen Expeditions was running an avalanche education class in the Five Fingers backcountry skiing area on the side of the ridge south of Highland Peak and Highlands Ski Resort. One of their backcountry skiing clients/students was caught in an avalanche and killed.
