The California company whose guides were leading skiers out of the Sierra Nevada backcountry when an avalanche struck their group and killed nine people, had ceased operations, according to an undated note on its website.
“Blackbird Mountain Guides is no longer operating,” a brief note on the company’s home page states. “We are forever grateful for the kindness of our community.”
Above that brief message is a eulogy to the nine people killed in the avalanche that released off Perry’s Peak. Among the dead were three Blackbird guides, and six of the company’s clients on a two night backcountry tour in the Castle Peak area near Donner Pass…