Maybe it is the clear skies we have had with the high-pressure systems that have dominated the month, but for some reason, I have been witness to a number of spectacular sunrises and sunsets lately.
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An avalanche warning is set to expire in the Aspen area at 7 a.m. Friday but there will still be considerable risk for backcountry travelers for the foreseeable future, according to the Colorado Avalanche Information Center.
In other words, don’t let the allure of powder cloud your judgment.
“We’re just now coming out of a fairly significant storm and a big loading event,” Brian Lazar, deputy director of CAIC, said Thursday. “The snowpack needs time to adjust to that. When you continue with incremental loading even if it’s small little storms it prolongs the period you need for the snowpack to become stable.”