According to a story in USA Today more people have been killed so far this year in avalanches than all of last season. So far over half have been snowmobilers.
“We had storm after storm after storm,” says Mark Moore, director of the Northwest Weather and Avalanche Center in Seattle, an agency administered by the U.S. Forest Service. “People are out there and they don’t know where to go, because avalanches are all around them. So there were some bad decisions.”
According to Avalanche.org 23 people have died since December 18, 2007. Hopefully, this don’t become a record year.
[Link: USA Today]
