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FRANK STASIO
NPR Talk of the Nation
06-29-2005
Interview: Lindsay Yaw discusses being an avalanche test dummy

Host: FRANK STASIO
Time: 2:00-3:00 PM

FRANK STASIO, host:

Early this winter, Lindsay Yaw spent a day completely entombed in the snow voluntarily. She was trying out life in an avalanche test dummy for an article in Outside magazine. And to tell us more about her experience, Yaw joins us from her home in Boulder, Colorado.

Welcome to the show.

Ms. LINDSAY YAW (Writer): Thank you.

STASIO: So you're an avalanche test dummy?

Ms. YAW: I am. I was. It was exciting.

STASIO: It's--now ...

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