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Article: Proceed With Caution: Rare, but deadly, inbounds avalanches force the Forest Service to review the standards of slope safety.(Fall Line: News And Notes Straight From The Slopes/What Now)
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- February 1, 2006
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Byline: Paul Tolme
WHEN A FREAK INBOUNDS avalanche swept a 13-year-old boy to his death at Nevada's Las Vegas Ski and Snowboard Resort last season, Doug Abromeit, director of the U.S. Forest Service's National Avalanche Center, was shocked. When a second fatal inbounds slide hit Colorado's Arapahoe Basin four months later, Abromeit--like other avalanche experts--simply shook his head in disbelief. In the 20 years that he's worked at the National Avalanche Center in Ketchum, Idaho, there have been three inbounds avalanche deaths. As far as two inbound fatalities in one season, "It has never happened," Abromeit says.
While inbounds avalanches are like ...
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