This was written for a less general purpose audience http://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/snow-sports/Tunnel-Vision-November-2012.html http://www.out

This was written for a less general purpose audience http://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/snow-sports/Tunnel-Vision-November-2012.html http://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/snow-sports/T... I just wrote about this from 3 days ago, an inbounds slide at Crystal which is about 40 miles away from the Pass, as the crow flies http://www.reddit.com/r/skiing/comments/154319/inbounds_slide_yesterday_at_crystal_mountain_30/c7j7hrm http://www.reddit.com/r/skiing/comments/154319/inbounds_slid... And truthfully, this thread is very similar to the discussion when Craig Kelly's group was caught out in Revelstoke (2003). We have better beacons and airbags but not much has changed (and funding for a lot of avalanche forecasters has been cut http://www.staynehoff.net/craig_kelly_death7.htm http://www.staynehoff.net/craig_kelly_death7.htm I used to not think about slides but one day i was skinning around Kirkwood by myself (there are a few areas like K, Alta and Mammoth, that I used to know like the back of my hand) and the snow was whumphing and i was thinking it was textbook snow. A little crown broke off, maybe 2 inches high, 8 feet wide, and I was shocked at how hard it hit my boots, almost knocked me over