Tag: Inter-Party Avalanche Involvements
The Chess Match of High Density Skiing
by Jason Albert | Nov 9, 2023 | Avalanche Department, Education, Featured, Opinion, The VPR Desk | 2
Inter-Party Avalanche Involvements: There is a generally accepted and often repeated assumption that the backcountry is overrun with humans. Are there more of us out there? The idea of party density and the reality of managing autonomous groups touring in the same zone, and often on the same run, is a real dynamic. To say the backcountry is a swarming hive of reckless and adaptable bipeds, each caught in their cascade of heuristic traps, is overreach. But there are crowds.
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