re: #3 darthstar

Sad news. One of the guys I patrol with was killed yesterday. A slope that doesn’t normally slide took him down when he was out doing avalanche control. The other patrollers with him got to him quickly, but the trauma of the fall killed him, not suffocation. He was a good guy.

Sorry for your loss. Losing a friend at Christmas would seem to be even more sucky than losing a friend at an ordinary time of year.