Morgan Cowles, 39, Santa Barbara resident and employee of UCSB’s Davidson Library, was killed by an avalanche at Sequoia National Park. Cowles and another man were reported missing on 1/28, and rescuers found his body at the base of an avalanche chute the following day. Cowles’s death marks the first avalanche-related fatality at the park in 10 years.

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