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ALEX CHADWICK, host:
This is DAY TO DAY. I'm Alex Chadwick.
Coming up, retuning a once-dormant musical career.
First, this. Rescue workers continue searching the site of an avalanche near Park City, Utah, that's claimed at least one life. Four other people believed caught in the snow slide are still missing. And with seven dead overall so far this year, in this incident and others, it's already the deadliest ski year in Utah since records were kept starting in 1951.
In the Park City avalanche, the skiers were in an out-of-bounds area marked with signs bearing a skull and crossbones and warnings that they might die skiing there; they went anyway. Ian McCammon studies what leads some skiers to risk their lives. When he spoke earlier--he from the studios of KUER in Salt Lake City--he said that his research had uncovered what he calls `situational cues' that do lead skiers into danger.
Mr. IAN McCAMMON (Avalanche Researcher): Well, these are cues that are particular to the situation that don't really have anything to do with the avalanche hazard. For example, say, if a person has skied a slope and they've skied it many, many times before over the last five or six seasons. They'll feel very comfortable on that slope and they'll feel like, `You know, I've skied this slope again and...