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"It&amp;apos;s been a year since Wesley Amos, a 28-year-old man from La Pine who loved the exploring the backcountry on his snowmobile, was killed when he was caught in an avalanche near Paulina Peak. Amos was riding on a slope frequented by snowmobilers that historically has been stable. Still, on that day the weight of his snow mobile was enough to release an estimated 200-yard wide slip. While the incident remains an outlier in relatively avalanche immune Central Oregon, it illustrates the dangers of travel, both motorized and non-motorized, in the vast terrain around Bend.  \nWhile there are no concrete numbers on backcountry travel, Forest Service representatives, backcountry guides and members of the Central Oregon Avalanche Association agree, backcountry usage is on the rise in Oregon. Whether it is snowshoeing, snowmobiling, cross country or backcountry skiing, the evidence is in our increasingly crowded sno-parks."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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