Reply #2: More on the avalanche

[Cerridwen]

LEE CANYON TRAGEDY: Ski resort avalanche rare

Experts say a fatality such as Sunday's hasn't occurred in years
By J.M. KALIL and FRANK CURRERI
REVIEW-JOURNAL

The cascading wave of snow that swept a 13-year-old Las Vegas boy to his death on Mount Charleston Sunday is the first fatal avalanche inside a U.S. ski resort in years, national experts said Monday.

Mammoth avalanches such as the one that killed snowboarder Allen Brett Hutchison have been a rarity inside ski resorts for decades with the advent of snow control measures such as precision blasting, where explosives are used to pre-emptively unleash dangerously unstable drifts before skiers take to the slopes.



http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2005/Jan-11-Tue-2005/news/25638169.html


I'm a native Las Vegan - I don't remember many reports of avalanches in the Mt. Charleston/Lee Canyon area. Especially one that takes a life. I'm 47, btw - so you can get a time frame.