di by Howie Schwartz
This fall I went to the first annual California Avalanche Workshop in South Lake Tahoe, California. CaliAviWorkshop_poster-copy-jpeg-479x620It was a nicely run event with great turnout and some interesting presentations. For me, one of the more memorable ones was a session by Elyse Saugstad. Elyse is a professional skier and an incredible ski athlete. She has been in numerous films and is a competitive freeskier in competitions. But the reason she is perhaps most famous is that she was one of the survivors of the avalanche accident at Tunnel Creek in February 2012 that killed 3 of her companions. This accident made big news and was well documented in ... [per continuare a leggere, fai clic sul link qui in basso]