Just Like the Movies...Only You Can't Outrun Them ; If You're Treading Into High Country This Winter, You Better Be Avalanche Savvy
Wyoming Tribune - Eagle › February 11, 2005
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Take a base of old snow with a crusty surface, and then add a foot of new fluff on a steep, open slope with few trees. What do you get? As long as the snow remains undisturbed, the answer, most likely, is "nothing." Add a person on a snowmobile or a backcountry skier, though, and the ingredients can add up to disaster in the form of an avalanche or snow slide.
Albany County Sheriff Jim Pond said so far, it's been a light year for avalanche concerns in the Snowy Range.See the full content of this document
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Just Like the Movies...Only You Can't Outrun Them ; If You're Treading Into High Country This Winter, You Better Be Avalanche Savvy
"But it's early yet," he said. "Until mid-January the snowpack at the high elevations was too low for much off-trail snowmobiling or skiing."
That changed when a weeklong snowstorm dumped two to three feet of new snow across the Snowy Range. The result is an increase in backcountry foot and...See the full content of this document
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