{"id":21456,"date":"2020-02-16T09:30:11","date_gmt":"2020-02-16T16:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/?p=63211"},"modified":"2020-02-16T09:30:11","modified_gmt":"2020-02-16T16:30:11","slug":"colorado-avalanche-information-center-reports-zero-people-were-caught-in-slides-across-the-state-in-past-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/local-news\/colorado-avalanche-information-center-reports-zero-people-were-caught-in-slides-across-the-state-in-past-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado Avalanche Information Center reports zero people were caught in slides across the state in past week"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An avalanche near the Black Lakes area of Vail Pass that is estimated to have released on or around Wednesday. According to the Colorado Avalanche Information Center report, the slide was triggered by a snowmobile side-hilling well below the crown. The report added that there were about 20 tracks already on the face when it broke 800-1,000 feet wide with a crown about 5-10 feet deep. No one was caught in the slide<\/strong>
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FRISCO \u2014 The Colorado Avalanche Information Center staff on Thursday morning shared its excitement that the state did not receive any reports over the previous seven days of people caught in avalanches. That said, the state agency urged caution ahead of the holiday weekend, a stretch that historically has been an accident-prone period.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is not because our snowpack is stable,\u201d said a post on the Avalanche Information Center\u2019s Instagram account. \u201cWe have seen many large natural and explosive-triggered avalanches over this time period. Just (Wednesday) a skier remotely triggered a large avalanche in the Sawatch zone that broke at the ground from over 1,000 feet away.\u201d<\/p>\n

The forecasting center added in the post that a possible explanation for the lack of reported backcountry recreationists caught in avalanches is that good decisions are being made.<\/p>\n

\u201cMaybe we are giving this potentially dangerous snowpack a healthy dose of respect?\u201d the post continued. \u201cA large loading event in the last week and numerous natural avalanches is all the evidence we need to know we should scale back our slope angles and evaluate snow and terrain carefully.\u201d<\/p>\n

Looking ahead to the weekend and with more snow in the forecast, Avalanche Information Center staff asked the public to spread the word that the state\u2019s snowpack is far from safe \u2014 particularly in the northern and central mountains, which includes Summit County \u2014 as several large natural-, skier-, snowmobile- and remotely-triggered slides have been reported in the past week.<\/p>\n

\u201cMultiple tracks on a slope do not mean anything as far as stability,\u201d the post said. \u201cWith our current snowpack situation, numerous tracks can be present on a steep slope before the fourth or even 10th rider triggers a large and deadly avalanche.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the Summit County and Vail zone, the center has received 36 avalanche observations from the public since Feb. 5. The observations include reports from Vail Pass, the Tenmile Range, the Gore Range and Loveland Pass.<\/p>\n

via:: Sky-Hi News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An avalanche near the Black Lakes area of Vail Pass that is estimated to have released on or around Wednesday. According to the Colorado Avalanche Information Center report, the slide was triggered by a snowmobile side-hilling well below the crown. The report added that there were about 20 tracks already on the face when it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21456","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-18 09:54:09","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":"KRKY Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}