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oyster  ·  2147 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Death in the Alpine

A lot of people don’t really understand how different the weather in the mountains can be and the average traveler did next to no research about the area before arriving. Most of the trails here are still snowbound and cross avalanche terrain. I’ve had arguments with people who are asking me about hikes that are closed for good reason that still want to go up. I’m doing them a favour, telling them there’s risk of avalanches and they want to downplay the danger so they don’t waste the trip they booked without planning. I don’t really know if there’s anyway to get through to those people before they make the trip in popular tourist destinations. As long as they stick to popular hikes during peak times they’ll be fine but there’s always people who assume summer where they are from is summer in the mountains.