"When are people gonna understand that the 'magical day' is NOT the sunny pow day right after the storm?"
"That day is a GIANT TRAP."
"Powder makes everyone lose their mind. FOMO. Stress. People ready to step on each other just to be first in the gondola in the holy quest for the first track,"
An avalanche swept through a heavily trafficked area in Verbier after a storm, burying five people who were rescued without fatalities. A separate avalanche near Val d'Isère killed three the same day, and another near Courmayeur killed three days later, bringing Europe's winter avalanche death toll to roughly 75. Avalanche bulletins across much of the western Alps rated danger 4 out of 5, warning natural avalanches were likely and human-triggered slides very probable. Instability followed weeks of heavy snowfall, strong winds, and persistent weak layers buried deep in the snowpack. Sunny powder days after storms create psychological hazards—FOMO and crowding—that increase exposure to high-risk slopes and threaten the long-term sustainability of the freeride community.
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