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I was on Baker the same day, met a couple from Colorado camping out after summiting, and have due to the small number of people on the mountain that evening, have to assume she was the victim of this tragedy. I want to reiterate what has been said here, I had a close call on my descent - glissading down an established glissade track, skiers left of the boot pack, took me over a bit of a ridge and revealed a large gaping hole in the snow directly in front of me. Not having time to arrest or slow, I planted my heals and leaped forward over the hole, and arrested on the other side of it. I am lucky and stupid. Obvious lessons I take away - look at it before you are committed to it, stay out of obvious drainage in snowmelt conditions, don't glissade faster than you can react. My heart goes out to to the climbers who were lost last weekend, I am truly humbled by my experience and wish such close calls on no one. Please learn from this.