379: The 1982 Avalanche That Took 7 Lives and Changed Skiing Forever
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🗓️ 5 February 2026
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, what is up everybody and welcome back to My Hire podcast. |
| 0:24.2 | I'm your host Josh and my lovely wife was going to be here today. You'll see her in the ads probably, but she's having, uh, starting to really |
| 0:31.8 | go through it here in the third trimester, not, not feeling so hot. It's very difficult to, uh, |
| 0:36.9 | be comfortable sitting for a while podcasting |
| 0:40.1 | and so she had to bail out of this one uh but she's going to try to make it to as many as she can |
| 0:46.8 | but you know she's in the third trimester final stretch she'll be here if she can and if she |
| 0:53.1 | isn't then just know she is going through it so |
| 0:56.4 | uh our thoughts and love to kendall but uh this episode is going to be on the |
| 1:04.0 | 1982 alpine meadows avalanche disaster this is one of the deadliest av avalanches to occur at a ski resort in the U.S. |
| 1:15.6 | But it's definitely a crazy story, a story of survival, also a story of tragedy at the same time. |
| 1:26.0 | But also here with me, I'm not all alone. |
| 1:28.9 | Of course, I've got Ian and Janelle here. |
| 1:31.1 | What up, guys? |
| 1:32.1 | Good afternoon, everybody. |
| 1:34.3 | Or morning or night, whatever. |
| 1:35.7 | Whatever time it is. |
| 1:37.9 | And I like that. |
| 1:40.3 | But there's a really, really great documentary on this disaster called, I think it's called Buried. |
| 1:48.4 | And it won multiple awards, I believe, in various film festivals. Very, very well done. |
| 1:54.6 | Highly, highly recommend you go and watch it to really get that first person perspective from a lot of the survivors of this event. |
| 2:04.7 | But avalanches have always been something that I've never thought about. |
| 2:11.1 | Being a Colorado, I'm not a Colorado native technically, but I basically am. |
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