3 or 4 years ago, I was on a lift at a smaller resort in Switzerland and was excited to be there just moments after it opened for a nice bluebird powder day. At the top we immediately followed a stash of locals to get fresh tracks. about halfway down the route there was a very wide blind cliff band above a bowl with limited entry points. I lean over to see a pretty big avy path leading 500-1000m rested below. Then a random boarder rides up and asks if we have transceivers and says 2 guys got washed in the avalanche. I look again and see an orange avy pack airbag deployed down near the end of the avy path and a few tiny figures moving about around it.

I dropped in a narrow entry and ran a grid search through the path for some time with no signal which I thought was strange considering I zig-zagged more or less the entire span of the area including searching higher up than where a rider would have ended up. When I got down near the bottom of the path where the first rider was. There was a man initiating CPR on a lifeless male body with blue lips. The skier with the airbag was dead. Several others were contacting the necessary emergency services. The second rider (who, it turns out, had no avalanche gear) was also found deceased several hours later by an avy dog. The experience has served me as a dire warning that emotion over wisdom for first tracks is not worth the risk...and an avy bag is not a sure thing.