March 8: For the current season beginning October 1, 2009 the Avalanche Center has posted 89 reports with a total of 322 fatalities. Our database now contains reports on 1579 avalanches since October 1, 1998.

Two climbers were critically injured in an avalanche on North Sister and air evacuated to Bend. Both were Mazama climb leaders with avalanche training from the Mazamas or MountainSavvy.