We learned about this tragic accident last night from friends at dinner who have a family connection to Mr. Burks.
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If you would like more information about what’s happening in Oregon, please FReepmail me. Please send me your name by FReepmail if you want to be on this list. 2 posted on
03/31/2024 8:35:38 AM PDT by
Twotone
(We have to stop punishing ourselves for considering things that once seemed crazy. - B. Weinstein)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
Guess he was buried in his work. Sorry couldn’t resist.
3 posted on
03/31/2024 8:43:51 AM PDT by
dblshot
To: ProtectOurFreedom
That’s very sad. (But also ironic.)
4 posted on
03/31/2024 8:44:15 AM PDT by
Tax-chick
(Sounds like a great idea, with the best of intentions. What could possibly go wrong?)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
He never saw it coming....
5 posted on
03/31/2024 8:45:26 AM PDT by
gundog
( It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
To: ProtectOurFreedom
The author waited until the seventh paragraph to blame the avalanche on climate change. Guarded restraint, I guess.
7 posted on
03/31/2024 8:46:11 AM PDT by
PhiloBedo
(You gotta roll with the punches, and get with what's real.)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
Confusing headline, but I understand he was part of the "professional avalanche-forecasting community" and was up there as a job to keep others safe from avalanches.
Sad story.
To: ProtectOurFreedom
So...are they saying he didn’t see this one coming?
13 posted on
03/31/2024 9:06:55 AM PDT by
moovova
("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
Kharma gonna get you no matter what.
15 posted on
03/31/2024 9:13:20 AM PDT by
Delta 21
(If anyone is treasonous, it is those who call me such.)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
Are avalanches occasionally triggered on purpose, as with Controlled Burning that goes on near my area of California?
Is that what was going on? Or was this simply a matter of being on the wrong ski trail at the wrong time?
To: ProtectOurFreedom
He TRIGGERED the avalanche??? REALLY?
20 posted on
03/31/2024 9:36:49 AM PDT by
Ann Archy
(Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
Sometimes irony can be mighty ironic.
22 posted on
03/31/2024 9:38:30 AM PDT by
Clay Moore
(My pistol identifies as a cordless hole punch. )
To: ProtectOurFreedom
AP takes another opportunity to blame on climate change.
26 posted on
03/31/2024 9:51:59 AM PDT by
suijuris
(Once a man learns to see he finds himself alone in the world with nothing but folly.)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
Bummer. That’s dangerous work.
Where I grew up they had an old howitzer to blast the ski mountain after a big storm to clear avalanche hazards.. if that wasn’t available, ski patrol guys like this would go to the top of the mountain and throw grenades on the slopes.
28 posted on
03/31/2024 10:17:25 AM PDT by
Organic Panic
(Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
Notice they had to add their obligatory stab at blaming Climate Change, while adding the extra people in the backcountry.
Fact is, the avalanche problem is no different today than it was 40 years ago.
The problem is more people skiing and snowboarding there they never used to. Plus these newcomers take more risks than in the old days. Just look at the videos they put on Youtube about the extreme risks they take.
Yet, it’s not them, but Climate Change.
Yet we are to believe it’s because to climate change.
29 posted on
03/31/2024 11:39:13 AM PDT by
OneVike
( Just another Christian waiting to go home)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
Died doing what he loved?
Damn shame.
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