{"id":1384103,"date":"2019-01-07T14:05:55","date_gmt":"2019-01-07T21:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/?p=961568"},"modified":"2019-01-07T14:05:55","modified_gmt":"2019-01-07T21:05:55","slug":"warning-of-avalanche-danger-for-the-aspen-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/local-news\/warning-of-avalanche-danger-for-the-aspen-area\/","title":{"rendered":"Warning of avalanche danger for the Aspen area"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Colorado Avalanche Information Center issued avalanche warnings Monday morning for the Aspen area and most of the northern and central Colorado mountains.<\/p>\n

After Sunday’s snowstorm dropped a foot of new snow in some areas, the CAIC said travel is not recommended in avalanche-prone areas, even below treeline, and added that slides could happen on their own.<\/p>\n

“We are on the cusp of a dangerous avalanche cycle. Naturals avalanches are likely today, and where avalanches don’t release naturally, you can easily trigger one,” forecaster Brian Lazar\u00a0wrote in the Monday morning update<\/a>. “Avalanches in the storm snow could break one to four feet thick. The thickest, stiffest, and most dangerous slabs are on north and east-facing slopes due to loading from strong southwest winds.”<\/p>\n

The warning includes the Gunnison, Grand Mesa, Steamboat and Flat Tops areas.<\/p>\n

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In addition to the 8 inches at most of the Aspen ski resorts in the past 24 hours, Lazar reported snow totals were 12 to 15 inches near Marble, 13 inches by Gothic, at least a foot near Irwin and 12 inches on McClure Pass and Grand Mesa.<\/p>\n

“This puts us right around an inch of snow-water equivalent, with the deepest areas (near Schofield SNOTEL site) approaching 1.5 inches,” Lazar said. “That a pretty good load in the less than 48 hours for our weak and fragile snowpack.”<\/p>\n

A backcountry\u00a0skier was killed in a slide Saturday<\/a>\u00a0on Red Mountain Pass in the San Juan Mountains. He was traveling in a group and four others survived. The Durango Herald\u00a0reported the victim as\u00a0Peter Marshall<\/a>, a 40-year-old man from Longmont.<\/p>\n

According to the\u00a0CAIC preliminary report<\/a>issued Monday morning, the group was part of an avalanche safety course and two slides occurred.<\/p>\n

via:: Post Independent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Colorado Avalanche Information Center issued avalanche warnings Monday morning for the Aspen area and most of the northern and central Colorado mountains. After Sunday’s snowstorm dropped a foot of new snow in some areas, the CAIC said travel is not recommended in avalanche-prone areas, even below treeline, and added that slides could happen on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1384103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-17 06:30:25","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KKCH - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1384103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1384103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1384103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1384103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}