For our sanity's sake, we prefer to think that deadly avalanches only happen on remote mountains on the other side of the world. But really they can happen anywhere, as people in Washington state sadly learned today. Earlier this afternoon, an avalanche occurred in the Cascade Mountains northeast of Seattle and killed…

[Aspen, November 28: Sarah Schleper of the USA skis the first run of the Slalom during the Audi FIS Women's World Cup Aspen Winternational. Image via Getty.]