many snowmobilers killed today in Revelstoke BC

MASSIVE avalanche today in the Revelstoke BC Canada area. 4 dead so far, many more expected as the RCMP/SAR figure out the snowmobile to rider ratio.

this area was so dangerous that SPECTATORS were wearing avalanche beacons!!!!

http://www.theprovince.com/news/Many+kil...0774/story.html

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BIG IRON 2009 footage of the area

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fIXUcJiXZo

the bowl

Stupid SOBs should have canceled or postponed the shootout.

I would say the reason most spectators had beacons is because they were snowmobilers. Its a common item for anyone in the backcountry because of avalanches.

Pretty sad that there was an Avalanche. I'm not sure what if anything they do for AV prevention there.

^ that was my thought too....

http://www.theprovince.com/whole+mountai...2747/story.html

Glad to hear the numbers are lower than they thought.

yea only 2 confirmed dead......... I think the media hyped it a bit after seeing all the overturned sleds

dump luck that more were not killed, whole lot of them got dug out

That's a pretty bad situation all around. Heard in the news today that charges
were going to be laid against someone over it.

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Man, that is a sad thing. Thank the Lord he had his guardian angels watching out for the rest of those who were dug out. Prayers for them all.