Tag: Caic
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Holiday weekend to bring dangerous avalanche conditions, officials warn
Colorado avalanche officials warn of a dangerous Presidents’ Day weekend in the backcountry, aligning with historic trends in the state. The long weekend is expected to bring the highest levels of avalanche danger Colorado has seen so far in February, a news release from the Colorado Avalanche Information Center said. Presidents’ Day weekend is historically…
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Special avalanche advisory issued by CAIC ahead of weekend snowstorm
The avalanche danger in Colorado is about to go from relatively low to rather considerable after this weekend’s winter storm and a special notice is up regarding its threat to backcountry travelers. The Colorado Avalanche Information Center (CAIC) issued a special avalanche advisory for mountainous areas of Colorado on Wednesday, alerting the public of dangerous…
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50 years of avalanche forecasting in Colorado: A journey of people, technology, nature’s might
For a 14-year-old boy who loved being in the mountains, search and rescue seemed like a fine opportunity. And so there Dale Atkins was in the winter of 1974, strapped to wooden snowshoes with that rawhide webbing, trudging up a slope near Guanella Pass. “The first mission I went on was an avalanche search,” Atkins…