but also to get a cool photo to show people.
They got it.
There are PLENTY of other paces to land away from a high density populated ski resort.
Yes, but if you're going to run into trouble, it's nice to do it where help will walk [ski] over to see if you're okay!
I understand that in one of Canada's native languages, "snow" is actually described more specifically with one of seven different words. I'm guessing that several of them are "avoid HIGE" type snow!