2 buried/killed Brush Creek, Crested Butte CO
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I do think a national organization that focuses on analyzing accidents developed to the point that it is recognized as the authority on the subject, and thus treated as required reading for BC skiers, could result in a significant reduction in blatant human error. This would be separate from forecasting organizations, but prominently linked to on all such pages. No space for public comment. No shaming. Honest, carefully crafted storytelling an high quality photos + video. It would cost time and $$$ to do it right. Production value matters when you are effectively competing with facebook and instagram.
To do this a producer has to become the arbiter of truth in murky scenarios that cost lives. That’s a proposition I think would be doomed to failure from the start. Could you imagine the blowback here? Joel Gratz can’t even do a forecast w/out catching flack...
It would also be very expensive: making a single 4-8 minute video for each fatal slide would easily cost tens of thousands of dollars (in freelance rates) to be done right. Add in a team to raise money, run the organization, market everything, whatever else and this could cost hundreds of thousands of dollars a year all to solve a problem that costs on average 27 lives a year.
I’d love to save every single person that died in a slide and I could make exactly what you’re asking to be created. But I don’t think it’s a realistic solution.