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New Essential Reading for Winter Recreation: Fatal Avalanches in the US, 2021-2022

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Description: Every year a multitude of people venture out into the snow to go snowshoeing, skiing, snowboarding, snowmobiling or climbing. Many are not fully informed of the dangers and the necessary risk management practices. This book sheds light on the fatalities that occurred last year and what went wrong in order to help others learn and improve their own margin of safety.

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Fatal Avalanches in the US: 2021-2022 reviews in detail all of the fatal snow avalanches of the season. They are summarized collectively, each is described, and noteworthy factors are discussed. Finally, the common factors and problems behind these tragic events are discussed. This information is invaluable for helping skiers, snowboarders, snowmobilers, climbers, and others avoid such incidents in the future.

This 1st edition reviews the 17 avalanche fatalities between October 1, 2021 and September 30, 2022 in clear terms with simple and clear snowpack diagrams and no technical obfuscation. The focus is on understanding what went wrong and how risk management could have been improved.

“While it remains our right to venture forth into avalanche terrain it also remains our responsibility to manage our own risk, to our own acceptable level. Hopefully these experiences of others will contribute in some way to that. “ – James Frankenfield, Author

Fatal Avalanches in the US: 2021-2022: A Review of the Season’s Fatal Avalanches is a must-have book for anyone recreating outdoors in winter. It can be found both in Paperback and Kindle form on Amazon at <a href="https://<a href='http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BQY4RNZV' rel='nofollow'>www.amazon.com/dp/B0BQY4RNZVhttps://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BQY4RNZV

ABOUT THE AUTHOR – James Frankenfield is a snow and avalanche professional with decades of experience as a skier/climber, snow scientist and engineer and mountain safety educator. He earned his M.Sc. in Physics in 1990 by studying seasonal snow and avalanches and has done scientific work in the field. In 1993 he started Avalanche-Center.org on USENET and a university gopher server and manages this project on the web to this day. He has climbed, soloed and guided alpine climbs throughout the western US, soloed a section of the Northville-Placid trail in winter in 1984, and has soloed multi-day glacier ski tours in the Alps. His website is snowman-jim.org

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CONTACT: The Avalanche Center (Avalanche-Center.org)
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Silver Mountain avalanche marks one year anniversary

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January 7 marks one year since the tragic Silver Mountain avalanche in Idaho. Three skiers were killed and four others were buried in the snow of the avalanche and survived.

The avalanche was unintentionally triggered by skiers. It ran over 900 feet down the slope and fell about 450 vertical feet.

One of the four survivors said he is still feeling some of the emotions that he felt this time last year.

“Still really grateful, grateful to be here, grateful that there were people that saw me, grateful that so many people that day came out to risk their own lives to find me,” said Bill Fuzak, survivor of the Silver Mountain Avalanche.

But Fuzak was lucky. Three others died.

“I definitely look at the world a little different now,” said Fuzak.

Fuzak is an avid skier but said that day changed him.

“I don’t trust myself as much anymore, I’m constantly looking around and being a little more aware of what’s going on,” said Fuzak.

Through it all, Fuzak is still skiing.

He has 30 ski days in this season already, starting in October.

Fuzak said it was nerve racking getting back out for the first time. But he added that  it takes time, and it’s getting better.

He said if he can offer any advice, the biggest thing to keep you safe on the mountain, is education.

“Knowledge is power, knowledge can help save you,” said Fuzak.

He said he is constantly checking avalanche reports and sending them to friends to help educate them.

He and his wife are even taking more refresher courses. They encourage everyone to get avalanche training.

And one more tip: “Don’t go alone, have someone there, because they won’t know where you are if something does happen,” said Fuzak.

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Rescue after Silver Mountain Avalanche
Silver Mountain Avalanche - Jan 2020
Silver Mountain Avalanche