Avalanche risks are there says the Canadian Avalanche Centre
Posted Dec 28, 2011 1:49 pm.
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Ilia Storm, an avalanche forecaster at the Canadian Avalanche Centre in Revelstoke, BC tells 660News unless you’re experienced, you shouldn’t be playing in the back country.
“There is a real perception problem. People perceive the problem as much safer then they are and our perception right now is that conditions are quite dangerous in the mountains so we encourage people to really play safe” he says.
Storm adds, once the storm passes, it will be even more difficult to read the conditions for the average guy, “Once the storm clears in a way we are going to have a more difficult situation because we won’t have natural avalanches, the problem won’t be as obvious and it will actually take a higher level of training and discipline to select the right terrain to say “No, im not going ride that beautiful powder slope that is staring at me in the face.'”
He says, it’s just not a good time to be in the back country, “When the mountains are rumbling, the problems are obvious. If you don’t have any avalanche skills or training, you should be avoiding avalanche terrain at this time.”
