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Gallatin National Forest Avalanche Center, MT Winter Summary Claims 2017/18 was One of the Biggest of all Time

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Friends of the Gallatin National Forest Avalanche Center claim that the winter of 2017-18 was one of the biggest of all time, and for the mountains around Cooke City, it was the biggest! The GNFAC published their winter season summary yesterday recapping the highlights of this exceptional winter. Below are the highlights (full document can be read here): Sept: Winter’s […]
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Details Emerge in Avalanche Death of Idaho Skier

Southwest Montana: The Gallatin National Forest Avalanche Center (GNFAC) has released a report related to the avalanche skier death near Cooke City, Montana on December 11, 2016. Reminder, Chris Peterson, 55, of Ketchum, Idaho had been skiing with his 27-year-old son, Axel, from Bozeman, Montana when he was overtaken by an avalanche, buried beneath heavy snowpack, and sustained fatal injuries. Both experienced […]
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Skier Triggered Avalanche Claims Life of Skier Near Cooke City, Montana

[iframe id=”https://www.youtube.com/embed/kc4ydOyfT1A”]   Doug Chabot and Eric Knoff of the GNFAC investigate the scene of a fatal avalanche outside Cooke City on 11 December 2016. A skier triggered an avalanche, was caught and fully buried. The slide was 250′ vertical, 3′ deep and 80-150′ wide. The slope was a terrain trap of trees. A skier was killed in an avalanche […]
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