Avalanche risk lowered slightly as body recovery efforts of 8 skiers begins

Operations to retrieve the bodies of skiers killed in Tuesday’s avalanche started Saturday morning. A Blackhawk med-evac helicopter took off from a Truckee airport just before 10 a.m. and flew into the area where the deadly slide struck a ski-tour group and guides northeast of Donner Summit.

The risk of more avalanches in the area had been slightly lowered Saturday, but with a new aspect of peril.

While the Sierra Avalanche Center had rated the danger of slides “high” on Tuesday ...