Like any form of risk, avalanche risk is able to be mitigated with information and deliberate decision making. Teaching these skills is the primary objective of

Like any form of risk, avalanche risk is able to be mitigated with information and deliberate decision making. Teaching these skills is the primary objective of avalanche education. It seems that your qualms with "off-piste" skiing are primarily as a result of an uneducated public, unable to make these risk-management decisions. I can certainly understand that frustration. But, wouldn't you agree that the solution is in education, rather than judgement?