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Old January 21st 05, 02:54 PM
Neil Gendzwill
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Switters wrote:
On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 11:38:18 GMT, Jason Pereira
allegedly wrote:


Think it's about time licence's are issued to skiers/ boarders to
access the backcountry/ off piste.



What about snowshoers, snow mobilers (currently the highest fatality
group), climbers etc? Do they need your licence too?


Two many clueless fools are killing themselves and



It's called the Darwin principle.


Especially in the case of snowmobilers.

This sort of law would be nearly impossible to enforce. If you took all
the resources that would be required for enforcing such a law and
instead put them into prevention, such as government-sponsored free avvy
courses at which you could purchase discounted transceivers, probes and
shovels, you would get way bigger bang for your buck.

The idiots will still die, and some of the smart ones, too - backcountry
riding is all about risk management, but there's no way to eliminate risk.

Neil

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