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Donziweasel
01-06-2007, 07:14 AM
Once again, we have another avalanche victim in Jackson Hole. Yesterday a skier in the backcountry, Justin Kuntz from Vermont, triggered an avalanche that swept him and 2 of his freinds over a cliff band in the Teton Mountains just south of the ski resort. Justin was pronounced dead on the scene and his two freinds survived. Still not clear whether he had avalanche gear (beacon, probe and shovel). That is the seventh death this year in North America from avalanches and the fifth around Jackson Hole. I can not remember a year starting like this. If this continues, we will have a record number of deaths and I have a feeling it is going to be a bad year.:( :( :(