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The 2010-2011 season ended on September 30 and we have a few overview graphs of fatalities for that season now. The total by our count is 24 individuals and 21 incidents. We are omitting an unwitnessed incident in Washington State which appears to have been a cornice fall that may have caused an avalanche below. The cause of the fatal incident does not appear to have been an avalanche. There are cases like this which are subjective, one year a climbing fall on Mt Hood resulted in a wet snow avalanche. Some counts included it, we considered it to be primarily a climbing fall.

The five year average in recent times has been 25-30 fatalities so this was a below average season.

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