My eyes have been opened to the very real threat of avalanches, even in New England
I thought my biggest safety concern while skiing was other skiers hitting me or tree wells. Now Iâve reassessed, and begun to do some homework. I look at untouched snow differently.
By Matt Pepin Globe Staff,Updated March 3, 2021, 12:31 p.m.
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Cindy Berlack standing on a veranda at the Mount Washington Hotel in Bretton Woods, N.H., in 2015. Cindy Berlack is the mother of US Ski Team member Ronnie Berlack, a 20-year-old who was killed in an avalanche while training. Cindy Berlack organized a daylong avalanche awareness workshop at the hotel.Cheryl Senter for The Boston Globe/file
Mount Washington Avalanche Center warns of hidden dangers of back country skiing
In this Wednesday, May 6, 2015 photo, Charlie Carr of Bristol leads his friend Andy Bell of Thornton up The Sluice, a slope with a 50-degree pitch on Tuckerman Ravine on Mount Washington. There are no lifts at Tuckerman Ravine; to ski it you have to climb it. Robert F. Bukaty
FILE - In this March 10, 2015, file photo, Greg George, of Macon, Ga., skis the Lobster Claw, a steep ski route in Tuckerman Ravine on New Hampshire s Mount Washington. Skiers have been hiking up to ski the Northeast s tallest peak for nearly 100 years. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File) Robert F. Bukaty
Officials from the Mount Washington Avalanche Center are warning about the potential for avalanches in the White Mountains. February has already been the deadliest month in a decade for avalanches across the United States. One of those deaths occurred in New Hampshire, and officials hope new information about how it happened will help others. Sign up for our Newsletters Rescuers say Ian Forgays of Vermont was found dead in an avalanche debris.
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Experienced Skier Killed in Avalanche in New Hampshire’s Ammonoosuc Ravine
New Hampshire Fish and Game has confirmed the death of an experienced and prepared backcountry skier in an avalanche in the Ammonoosuc Ravine of New Hampshire’s Presidential Range. Following a 24-hour search, which began Tuesday night, a multiagency rescue effort recovered the individual’s body on the west side of Mt. Washington, the range’s tallest summit.
Mt. Washington and the west side of New Hampshire’s Presidential Range. The Ammonoosuc Ravine is the prominent face at the photo’s center. [Photo] Courtesy Mt. Washington Valley Chamber of Commerce