Freeride World Tour athletes braved deep snow on a steep mountain face March 24 after waiting a week for safe enough weather to compete.
Although riders said conditions were good, an avalanche tested the skills of Swedish skier Reine Barkered. A soft top layer of snow broke free from the mountain face as he was on it.
Barkered said the Freeride guides warned the athletes that day of pockets of instability on the face of…
