At 4:20 every winter morning, Mara Venn writes the shot list for Ardent Ridge.

• All characters are adults, with ages stated below.
• Avalanche burial and death; recovery and resuscitation are described without rescue instruction.
• Grief, survivor guilt, public blame and workplace pressure.
• Economic precarity, cancelled wages, threatened homes and insurance.
• Professional explosive avalanche control is discussed without actionable preparation or deployment detail.
• Alcohol use.
• Sexual intimacy is implied and cuts away at the door.
• No slurs are written out. Bigotry, if present, appears only through behaviour and consequence.

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