CBS4′s Jeff Todd interviews Meesh Hytner. (credit: CBS)
BRECKENRIDGE, Colo. (CBS4) – A backcountry professional from Breckenridge is warning anyone planing to venture into avalanche-prone areas to use extreme caution.
Last month Meesh Hytner was in a freestyle snowboarding event near Keystone when she got caught in an avalanche. It was caught on camera.
Luckily, Hynter was wearing a backpack with a special airbag that she deployed. It’s designed to keep people above the snow, instead of getting buried.
Hytner hopes other skiers can learn from her close call.
“If you go out in the backcountry this year you’re playing with fire, and I had to get burned to realize that,” she told CBS4. “I could have been above the snowpack, but I also could have been a corpse at the bottom.”
The device costs about $800. Hytner says it was money well spent.
Four people have died in avalanches this winter in Colorado.
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