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The Gallatin National Forest Avalanche Center has issued a backcountry avalanche warning for the Bridger, northern Gallatin and northern Madison Ranges through Feb. 18, 2020.
The Gallatin National Forest Avalanche Center has issued a backcountry avalanche warning for the Bridger, Northern Gallatin and Northern Madison ranges. The center warns that the avalanche danger is rated high on all slopes and avalanche terrain and avalanche runout zones should be avoided.
Twenty to 30 inches of snow has fallen in the last few days along with a westerly wind, which has overloaded an already weak snowpack, creating very dangerous avalanche conditions. The center reports that natural and human triggered avalanches are likely.
BOZEMAN, Mont. – The new snow mixed with warmer temperatures after the week-long cold snap is elevating the risk of human triggered avalanches in southwest Montana.
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This image provided by Colorado Avalanche Information Center shows an avalanche that killed an unidentified snowboarder on Sunday, Feb. 14, 2021, near the town of Winter Park in Colorado.
The deaths of two Colorado men caught in avalanches and a third in Montana over the frigid Presidents Day weekend show how backcountry skiers and others in the Rocky Mountain wilderness risk triggering weak layers of snow that have created the most hazardous conditions in a decade, forecasters say.
At least 25 people have been killed in avalanches in the United States so far this year more than the 23 who died last winter. Typically, 27 people die in avalanches in the U.S. annually.
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