AVALANCHE KILLS TWO; Is There Enough Avalanche Information Available to the General Public?

At around 1:45 a.m. Friday morning, a rush of snow slid 600 feet down the side of a mountain, burying a vacation home near Soldier Mountain in Fairfield. Dr. Marsha Landolt, Dean of Graduate Studies at the University of Washington, and her husband Dr. Robert Busch an aquatic health consultant in Seattle, were covered by ten feet of thick snow while sleeping in the lower level of the home.

Landolt's son Nicolas Kocan, and Busch's daughter Jenna Rovig and her husband Kelby Rovig, along with their two children were able to escape the slide because they were sleeping in the structure's relatively unburied upper level. Two family dogs also escaped the carnage. One of the animals, …