Patrollers Set Off Avalanche on Crowded Mammoth Mountain
Patrollers Set Off Avalanche on Crowded Mammoth Mountain
The slide partially buried several lift employees, but no one was seriously injured.
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Last weekend, ski patrollers conducting avalanche mitigation work at Mammoth Mountain set off an avalanche that reached a part of the mountain still open to the public and partially buried lift employees; no one was seriously hurt. The avalanche triggered search and rescue operations and closed down the resort.
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