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8 Missing After Avalanche in Fernie (Backcountry)
 Poster: A snowHead
Poster: A snowHead

http://www.vancouversun.com/Sports/Eight+still+missing+after+avalanches+bury+snowmobilers+near+Fernie/1121093/story.html
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 Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person

Sorry just x posted the RCMP report to the Fernie thread - wonder if I'm skiing today
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 Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?

Unlikely to be any happy ending it seems http://www.vancouversun.com/Sports/bodies+recovered+from+avalanche+area/1122629/story.html
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http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20081229/BC_search_081230/20081230?hub=TopStories

All 8 bodies recovered Sad
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 Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.

Just watching a news conference with one of the survivors. He was dug out of the first slide by one of those who did not survivie the second one. Quite unbelievable that any of them got out when they were hit by two avalanches and actually witnessed 4. When the second avalanche hit they had actually removed much of their gear because they we digging for others. One particularly hard decision that they had to make was for two of them who had managed to dig themselves out of the second slide, to leave a third person buried alive and calling to them because they heard a third 'crack'. They did return and free him once they realised that the third slide had missed them. The avalanche centre and survivors have indicated that the slides were travelling at up to 150 km/h at up to 15 feet high and half a kilometer wide.

There will always be those who say that they should not have been in high risk areas, but they were all equiped with the right gear, and they assessed the risk and deliberately stayed low. There was no indication that they or anyone else triggered any of the slides. It is just a very sad accident that has taken 8 young men from one small town, my thoughts are with them, the survivors and the families.
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