The kids must have had lift tickets, so the coaches must have known they were skiing. I would be surprised if the coaches didn’t know the kids were off skiing somewhere, as free skiing is an important part of race training. On the map, the area they were in was close to the lift, and probably looked really inviting. It’s easy for me to imagine a coach saying, “ok, go take a few runs to warm up/warm down. It’s hard for me to imagine also that these kids weren’t out free skiing every minute they could, I know I sure would have if I was 19 or 20 and racing in Europe. The only way I would not be skiing every free second I could would be if I were d…..oops, don’t mean to be tasteless here. But if these coaches didn’t know these kids were off skiing all the time, and didn’t tell them about the hazards at least once, especially when the danger is considerable, then perhaps these guys should coach Masters.

I wonder if they even had beacons etc to use if they wanted them.

Mike

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On Jan 20, 2015, at 1:54 PM, Skip King <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

On 1/20/2015 1:48 PM, Matthew Kulas wrote:
We weren't instructed to hike off-piste, either, but even the group that I split off from ended up taking a "short-cut" on the descent.

No, but irrespective of that, you were told to enter terrain with which you weren't familiar - unguided.

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