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Colorado Has 1 Of 3 Events Leading Up To Big Avalanche Cycle
"Hard for anyone to really wrap their head around," Colorado Avalanche Information Center Director Ethan Greene told CBS4 Tuesday.
FRISCO, Colo. (CBS4)– Historic, unprecedented and powerful. That’s how Colorado avalanche forecasters describe what the state experienced with an avalanche cycle that brought slides down from the mountains around Winter Park down to Durango in March of this year.
Forecasters spent the summer months surveying the hundreds of individual slide paths and learning a lot from what they witnessed once the snow melted. CBS4 cameras on the ground and in the air documented the slides that covered highways, buried homes and hit locations never before covered by an avalanche.