Crunching Numbers

Written by  //  February 26, 2010  //  Ski  //  1 Comment

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I feel like I have been, to quote Karl Malone, “beating a dead horse to death” with all the avalanche talk. But these numbers from the UAC are simply staggering:

SO FAR this season:

252 unintentional, human triggered avalanches in the backcountry

52 caught

19 partial burials

5 total burials

11 injured

3 killed

Bruce Tremper described this season as “one long string of human triggered avalanches.” Both the number of unintentionally triggered slides, and the number of people caught in them are Wasatch records. It’s been that sort of year.

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Grizzly Adam is the author of Mythical and Tangible: Tales of Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Singletrack. He is also a frequent contributor to Cycling Utah and XXC Magazine. He spends his free time chasing the advice of Ben Franklin, that is, trying to "write something worth reading, or do something worth writing about."

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One Comment on "Crunching Numbers"

  1. Greg February 27, 2010 at 7:49 am ·

    Haha, this’ll probably sound like your mom, but ski safe man. Or just stay inbounds.

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