The Colorado Avalanche Information Center & The Friends of CAIC Colorado is famous for powder so light it’s accurately described as cold smoke. Yet, that cold smoke powder is the alluring face hiding the ugly secret of Colorado’s notoriously unstable continental snowpack. Since the early 1950s, almost a third of all avalanche fatalities in the United States have occurred in Colorado. Given this grim statistic, gathering field data, creating and […] Avalanche Curtis Weller | November 9, 2018 0 Comments
Only 12 Avalanche Fatalities in the USA in 2016/17 – The USA Averages 27 | We Asked 5 Experts Why This Year’s Total Was So Low? There were only 12 Avalanche deaths this winter (2016/17) in the U.S. The annual average is 27. So, what happened? Record breaking snowfall characterized much of the western United States this year, with storm snowfall totals being recorded in feet instead of inches, massive avalanches closing roads all across the nation, and “weather events” that left us all saying “OH MY […] Avalanche LadyBrains | November 14, 2017 3 Comments