Yin and yang in Sunday's mountain news.
Truckee's local fishwrap worked overtime on the holiday weekend to report: "Dry Conditions Posing Problems for Tahoe Region Wildlife" Bad News Bears...
The news from Stevens Pass in Washington State is about too much snow: "Avalanche Takes Three Lives Near Stevens Pass"
That's "Our Snow" falling in the Pacific Northwest courtesy of La Niña's tendency to split our cold fronts.
This year's La Niña seems to shaping up to be especially deadly for beast and man!
By Monday noon, the story was even being reported in Europe. Friend of @CorduroyPlanet, PlanetSki has the names. Perhaps because European skiers have been having high avalanche danger in their mountains too.
Even Royalty have been avalanche victims. Dutch Prince, Johan Frisco was hit by a slide Friday in Lech, Austria. He survived 15 minutes buried in the avalanche debris, and remains in critical condition in an Innsbruck hospital.
Both the Washington group and the Dutch Prince were skiing out of bounds. Both groups decided to ski outside of controlled slopes during High Avalanche Warnings. Swept away survivors on both continents wore and deployed airbags.
It's not nice to mess with Mother Nature. I opined on avalanche danger back in August 2009. Titled "Poaching" it was the 19th CorduroyPlanet Post ever.
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