From the November 2012 issue of Outside Magazine: Tunnel Vision. Last winter, 15 skiers looked down a remote slope covered in powder and thought: Bliss. Minutes later, Megan Michelson was helping pull bodies out of the snow. A harrowing account of one of 2012's deadliest avalanches.
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Excellent article. Every out
Excellent article. Every out of bounds skier should read this. My heart is still pounding. Felt I was there. Thanks, Megan for telling it like it was.
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