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comment by WanderingEng
WanderingEng  ·  2581 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: I Don’t Want to be in the Rocks

I do hike alone, and it is a bit dangerous. I follow most of the other guidelines, including leaving a description of my plans with family and expected return times. But reading incidents like this one is scary because taking care of myself until help arrived would be a real challenge. I think I'm more conservative because of it, turning back and taking the safer options.

Above the tree line in blowing snow on skis sounds really scary and a good way to become a search and rescue story. Algonquin Mountain has some rock cairns to mark the trail, but in the winter they aren't always easy to spot. And hiking at least, the spot where the trail starts isn't obvious until you're standing in it. I suspect a ski route is even harder, with wide open areas?





someguyfromcanada  ·  2581 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Correct. In a Bowl you make your own trail or follow someone else's line. My biggest worry was unexpectedly skiing into a tree well or off a cliff at low speed, which is actually much more dangerous than at higher speed.

A lot of big resorts now offer a GPS tracker that can tell them exactly where you are and as long as you are in-bounds they should be able to get to you fairly quickly. If that was available then, I probably would have activated it and said I just needed a guide out of there.