Salt Lake Snowcast
This is a weekly podcast released in time for the weekend commute to your favorite Wasatch skin tracks. It is a place for information sharing about current backcountry observations and discussing hot topics with our backcountry ski and splitboard community.
Salt Lake Snowcast
Episode 7: Near Misses, Close Calls, and Red Flags
Are we making good decisions or are we getting lucky? Going into this weekend, I have a message I want you to hear. We are headed in a bad direction and I don’t like the trend I’m seeing. We’ve seen some notable incidents and we have almost every “red flag” present right now in the Wasatch. Typically, we see some dangerous close calls, a few people get lucky, and then the luck eventually runs out. Let’s work together as a community, think before we drop in, and keep one another safe.
On a more optimistic note, the snow globe continues this weekend with more powder on tap. Tune in for your usual update on backcountry conditions followed by a conversation with Jack Stauss about red flags and decision making.