Colorado Avalanche Information Center
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A ducked rope line. A massive avalanche: Detailed report on deadly Telluride slide comes as sheriff’s probe continues
The Colorado Avalanche Information Center’s final report confirms -- in detail -- earlier accounts of the slide that killed Salvador Garcia-Atance on Feb. 19
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Colorado’s 7th avalanche fatality this season comes in Jones Pass slide during historic conditions
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Telluride’s avalanche-battling arsenal: WWII cannons, 3D mapping and discipline
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Colorado’s weekend snowstorm prompted avalanches in areas that hadn’t slid in decades. Here’s why.
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Telluride-area slide claims sixth Colorado avalanche death this season
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Colorado’s first avalanche death of 2019 came during an advanced avalanche-safety course on Red Mountain Pass
Peter Marshall, a 40-year-old from Longmont, was on a three-day avalanche class when he was buried by an avalanche and killed
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A declining number of avalanche deaths in Colorado, the West in the past four seasons buoys hope
"We are seeing a success story. But the source of that success is very complicated," said Ethan Greene, director of the Colorado Avalanche Information Center
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Hidden in the Colorado avalanche deaths downturn is a growing trend of avoidable accidents
"My challenge to avalanche educators right now is to develop a way to better instruct people on not just when to turn around, but how to turn around," said Dale Atkins, an avalanche educator.
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Colorado Ski Safety Act tested in two trials involving in-bounds avalanches
The family of Taft Conlin is continuing its fight with an appeal
