Two Teenagers killed in Alpental Valley

Having been an AT skier since 2000, I am one that has grown witness to the large influx of people venturing into the backcountry of WA, regardless of mode of travel.  I'm going out on a limb here with an assumption, but I think some people move to the area, hear about what the Cascades have to offer & want a piece of the action/fun w/out necessarily fully researching what is required.  I believe some hear from others that an activity in a certain location is completely doable/safe & then venture forward on that opinion not realizing potential consequences.  This begs the question in this case & in some others over the years: do they even know that NWAC & avalanche forecasts exist?

Regardless of generally known safe zones on high avi forecast days (which is typically known by more seasoned individuals), for the most part, many of those that get in trouble seem to be naive to the bigger picture.  As you all know, it's much more than simply buying/renting a pair of snowshoes from REI, driving up 90 & going for a leisure tour in the snow.  I don't know if this was their first time doing this, but in some cases it is, and their last, unfortunately.  Anyway, I'm not pointing any fingers; it's simply an observation I've had.  The region as a whole is growing at an enormous pace.  For this obvious reason, it seems hard to deny hearing terrible stories like this in the future. 

I think skiers are so used to the common winter ascents routes that they assume they are more safe. Bu
Pick your poison. What was the actual avalanche forecast for the 25th? I don't recall it being high. I believe it was considerable or moderate.

The Avy danger was high that day.

www.nwac.us/avalanche-forecast/avalanche...est-snoqualmie-pass/

...made under the name "vague observations for money" disappeared... etc

What does this have to do with Two Teenagers killed in Alpental Valley? Please have some respect, please do not make every thread about yourself.

This was a huge huge tragedy, my heart goes out to both families, I can only imagine the pain they are in.

  an observation that I reported on the nwac observations page  and made under the name "vague observations for money" disappeared, presumably deleted. I reported two significant Avalanches which we encountered on a tour on March 1st and I posted those observations early in the morning on March 2nd.  Since we saw fresh ski tracks near one of the Avalanches we did a quick transceiver search with no results. That was also reported.

Nwac, in my opinion, has a guide centric bias.

Maybe they didn't like my political public safety message along with my observation. I'm concerned if a government agency deleted the public record.

I sent nwac an email concerning this issue and have not heard back, or even an acknowledgement that the email was received.

Two days later we had our first skier Avy fatality here on the North Eastside Cascades.

I just saw this on the NWAC twitter site: twitter.com/nwacus/status/970803733327237121 . They obviously agree that sharing reported info is always worthwhile, regardless of form. Which leads me to believe they deleted your report because they thought the whole thing was bogus, due to your snarky approach. Why don't you do something positive with all this pent up energy, like becoming an avalanche instructor and teaching teenage snowshoers about avy safety, instead of trying to prove a conspiracy that does not exist?