While thousands of runners were wearing shorts and running Bloomsday on May 5, Gregg Smith of Spokane led his daughter, Sarah, 14, (left) and son, Michael, 17, (right) on a backcountry skiing adventure near Lookout Pass. The warm weekend weather had begun triggering spring avalanches in the heavy mountain snowpack, so the skiers carved telemark turns mostly in the trees.
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