backcountry

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Chicago Ridge avy classes Getting some firsthand experience in the backcountry is the best way to learn how to travel safely and avoid avalanche danger.

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  • There was no avalanche control in the backcountry, as the boilerplate for the heli-skiing operation reminded customers Well. —  AnalogSFF,May2007
  • She jerked up, sniffing for griz stink, thinking about that granola who heliocoptered into backcountry -- that woman who poo-pooed warnings about packing a weapon and ended up playing dead while a griz chewed off everything from the biceps down. —  F ;SF; - vol 092 issue 04 - April 1997
  • Staying clean in the backcountry was an arduous undertaking, results obtained for effort put forth seldom satisfying, but for Anna, it was a necessary if she was to maintain anything close to good cheer. —  Blood Lure
  • In the backcountry was only the often pitiless but never malicious work of the gods. —  Blood Lure
  • Adams, 29, was one of three men to survive a series of weekend avalanches in a backcountry area between Fernie and Sparwood, B.C. —  CTV News RSS Feed
 

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