San Juan County Sheriff Bruce Conrad wrote in his weekly blotter in the Silverton Standard & Miner that the “local backcountry skiers were extremely fortunate to survive a 1,500-foot ride on a snowy beast at over 60 mph.”
“The very large and wet avalanche required much equipment and over eight hours to remove from the roadway,” Conrad wrote. “The skiers were amazingly unharmed and can pick up their speeding citation at the Sheriff’s Office.”
Already this season, there have been 12 avalanche-related incidents in Colorado, resulting in the deaths of four people. There have been a total of 19 fatalities in avalanches in the United States so far this winter.
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