 Poster: A snowHead
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 The heavy snow falls, followed by rain and milder weather, have brought fears of a killer avalanche season. With more than 15 deaths across Europe in the past 2 weeks, are these fears justified? Four people were killed by avalanches yesterday in Switzerland, and seven others were injured, some of them critically. In a separate incident, three young snowboarders were arrested after they appeared to have set off an avalanche near Zermatt last Thursday, which caught a group of seven, including five children.
A massive avalanche killed two skiers and their off-piste guide, Benjamin Gaimard, in Les Arcs last Friday. Also, at the end of December, a series of avalanches in the Italian Alps killed seven people, and three climbers were killed in Scotland after two separate slides.
...See: http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/01/03/swiss-avalanches-kill-4-in-valais-bern-others-hospitalized/ and http://www.lesarcsnet.com/whats_new_article.php?id_whats_new=6161&id_back=1 and
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8432107.stm and http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5goM5jhhBUYkvn5NImh-lWgObRy8A
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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You sadly missed the one in Orelle/Val Thorens - http://pistehors.com/news/forums/viewthread/429/
Some photos there from our own 123_456 and when you look at the 1st you think, blimey quite a big slide, then you look at the 3rd and think that looks a reasonably benign slope (to this non-expert off-pister) - not overly steep, doesn't look like there's a big pile off snow further up the slope - looks like there's plenty of opportunity for the slide to fan-out and dissipate a little.
Interesting comment in the thread that this might be slope used by ski-schools reasonably regularly - any VT experts able to say for certain?
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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?
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bertie bassett, That slope gets skied quite regularly, but for me its more of a spring snow option personally..
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Whitegold, not in the Pacific Northwest - quite mild here, snow line is certainly higher than typical. And we're in the Northern Hemisphere last I looked 
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A guide was killed in Bruson, opposite Verbier, on Sunday 2nd January '10, when he went into a settled avalanche to check for victims. He was caught by a subsequent, secondary avalanche.
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