Sweeping recommendations have been made to keep snowmobilers from being swept of mountains.
When 24 people died in the B.C. backcountry last winter - 19 were on snowmobiles - the province's chief coroner called together an expert panel (names are not disclosed on coroner's task forces) of 16 British Columbians to examine ways of preventing future deaths due to avalanche. They spent the past two-plus months examining each death, and the myriad hazards of the alpine, and this week they released their findings.
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