After 3 or 4 days of fresh snow the avalanche dangers are high in the Sierra Nevada. Yesterday an accident in the eastern area showed how fragile the snows are at present. Advice is to keep to easy angled slopes and away from steep ground until consolidation occurs. Yesterday, 29th January 2011, between 13:00 and [...]
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The three off-piste skiers who triggered an avalanche in the Swiss Valais region last December have just been indicted for obstructing public traffic through negligence. If they are convicted it could lead to an outright ban on the practice of off-piste skiing near to ski pistes. On December 27, 2009, the three ski mountaineers in [...]
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