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America’s Deadliest Avalanche

America’s Deadliest Avalanche

| July 6, 2008 | 4 Comments

I’d always assumed that the worst avalanche accident in America involved a remote mining town or had something to do with the Gold Rush stampede.  Miners were notorious for building towns like Alta right in the middle of avalanche run-out zones, then chopping down all of the surrounding trees/anchors for firewood.  If it wasn’t that, […]

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