I don't think flagging a traverse is really winking at people skiing there, for one thing I imagine there is hiking there in the summer.
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Originally Posted by MacDaddy77
Jesus. That’s buried under 5-6’of snow
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But not of asphyxiation. The other skier managed to find them with a transceiver search and get them out, they later died, presumably of trauma (lots of trees and stuff to get dragged over there). Has to be horrible to do all the work to find and save your buddy only for it not to matter... good effort by that dude regardless, he did what he could.
This is why I always thought wilderness first aid was something that people should take along with AST1. Sometimes it's better to clear the airway and leave the person buried otherwise until help gets there, because the set snow is acting as a tourniquet. Obviously don't know whether that was the case here, may have been nothing anyone could have done differently that would have produced a different result.