Are you prepared for what you don’t know? “The biggest challenge for the center is getting the word to people who are going into the terrain,” explains Jeff Fongemie, lead snow ranger for the Cutler River Drainage and director of the Mount Washington Avalanche Center. As I wrote to you yesterday, even with improvements in equipment, and perhaps because of it, more people seek the backcountry adventure who are not prepared.
It’s scary out there when all seems lost. How many know the dangers? It can be a form of malpractice to enter the tangled wilderness of retirement life without a compass and map. But people do it all the time. The terrain is like nothing experienced before because up to this point, retirement has been a goal, not a reality. And once in retirement, investing becomes several magnitudes more emotional. There’s no safety rope like a job to save you.
“[T]he biggest challenge for the center,” continues Fongemie, “is getting the word to people who are going into the terrain. They just don’t know avalanches are there, so they don’t look for an avalanche forecast. We see this a lot with the new backcountry skiers.”
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Read more about Mount Washington and the dangers of the backcountry here:
- The Perfect Recipe for Avalanches on Mt. Washington
- The Lions of Winter: Young Climbers Lost on Mt. Washington
- Lost Climbers on Mt. Washington Risk the Lives of Many
Originally posted on Your Survival Guy.
