Tuesday’s disaster came about a month after two skiers were killed in an avalanche in the Washington Cascades, a grim reminder of how conditions can turn deadly.
SNOQUALMIE PASS, Wash. — On a snowy Wednesday at Snoqualmie Pass, Jasper Boas was doing what families across Washington do all winter — taking his two kids out on the mountain, teaching them to snowboard.
But Tuesday’s news from California was hard to shake. Boas used to live near Lake Tahoe, where at least eight backcountry skiers were killed in an avalanche, the deadliest in the United States in roughly half a century.
“It’s awful,” said Boas.
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