There are slippery slopes ...
... and then there is deliberately skiing into 2 feet of new-fallen snow sitting on 6 feet of previously fallen snow with a 1 inch ice cap from the mild weather over the prior week, thus triggering an avalanche and killing entirely too many innocents[0].
The .fed needs to back down. They are completely wrong on this one.
[0] Some dumb-ass will do this very thing in the Sierra this weekend, mark my words ...