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Hearing Voices: Sticking to the Sanctioned Slopes in Alta

This has been a deadly winter for skiers, snowboarders and snowmobilers who have ventured out-of-bounds in Utah's snow-covered Wasatch Range. Writer and radio producer Scott Carrier travels to Alta, a Mecca for "powder hounds," to get the views of skiers who are sticking to safer, sanctioned slopes.

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