{"id":1305190,"date":"2019-03-10T06:36:11","date_gmt":"2019-03-10T12:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vaildaily.com\/?p=450469"},"modified":"2019-03-10T06:36:11","modified_gmt":"2019-03-10T12:36:11","slug":"tellurides-avalanche-battling-arsenal-wwii-cannons-3d-mapping-and-discipline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/tellurides-avalanche-battling-arsenal-wwii-cannons-3d-mapping-and-discipline\/","title":{"rendered":"Telluride\u2019s avalanche-battling arsenal: WWII cannons, 3D mapping and discipline"},"content":{"rendered":"

MOUNTAIN VILLAGE \u2014<\/strong> Taj Simon is charging up the narrow, windswept ridge. “Come on dad. Let’s go!” he yells to his father, Garrett, who is carrying the 7-year-old’s skis.<\/p>\n

The valley locals are atop Black Iron Bowl, a steep basin below Telluride’s Palmyra Peak, a good 20-minute hike up from the top of the Prospect chairlift. Below them spills a bounty of steep powder, lined with rocky chutes.<\/p>\n

In a backcountry scenario, the terrain would trigger some serious scrutiny, especially in this exceptionally active avalanche season. But this is Telluride’s famous hike-to inbounds terrain and ski patrollers for weeks have been shelling the bowl and the peak above it with a barrage of explosives, including mortars fired from Colorado skiing’s only World War II cannons.<\/p>\n

“They’ve been howitzering the heck out of this in the last month. I have a high level of confidence in the snow here,” Simon says, shortly before chasing his beyond-expert son into the downy fluff, leaving wispy trails of cold smoke billowing around their knees. “I have 100 percent confidence in our ski patrol and maybe then some.”<\/p>\n

The steepest ski areas in Colorado \u2014 Silverton Mountain, Crested Butte<\/a>, Wolf Creek<\/a>, Arapahoe Basin, Aspen Highlands and Telluride \u2014 deploy a wide array of strategies when it comes to reducing the risk of avalanches on inbounds terrain. Telluride stands out with a customized snow-compaction rolling machine, avalanche dogs trained to find buried people, a helicopter, Avalaunchers and a pair of howitzers, giving the steep-and-deep ski area one of the largest and most diverse tool boxes in all of North American skiing when it comes to mitigating avalanche hazards.<\/p>\n

Read the full story via The Colorado Sun<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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