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"The backcountry is something we don't open and close. It's left to people to make their decisions to go out or not," said Janet Kellam, director of the Sawtooth Avalanche Center. "We have seen good response to the [avalanche] warnings."
"The slopes [usually] have timber, eventually these trees will come down and then we'll have nice open slopes," said [David Gordon]. "There's been a lot of fire in past seasons up by McCall and they've got great, open slopes now.""We work on developing peoples' decision making skills; getting people familiar with the human behavior phenomenon of ignoring the signs," said [Kirk Bachman]. "They get scripted in terms of why they're out there, they get blinders on."See the full content of this document
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The Language of Snow
For people with a passion for wintertime sports, the first thought when seeing a field of clean, white snow may be to get into that pretty fluff as quick as possible. But anyone who studies snow conditions created by those undulating fields of white will be quick to caution about dangers hidden beneath. This winter, especially, the risks for out...
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