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Friday, Jan. 8, 2021 5:03 AM The second annual Rando Race will take place Sunday at Purgatory Resort. Courtesy of Know the Snow Fund
Best bets this weekend in and around Durango The second annual Rando Race will take place Sunday at Purgatory Resort. Courtesy of Know the Snow Fund
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Best bets this weekend include the Rando Race and Fly Me to the Moon.
Know the Snow Fund, a local nonprofit dedicated to increasing avalanche awareness and education, will host the Know the Snow Rando Race at Purgatory Resort from 8 to 11 a.m. Sunday.
BOULDER The family of a deceased backcountry skier has named Boulder-based equipment maker Backcountry Access Inc. as a co-defendant in a wrongful death lawsuit connected to a family member’s 2019 avalanche death.
In the suit filed over the weekend in Boulder County District Court, the family of Peter Marshall alleged that in February 2019, staff at the Silverton Avalanche School failed to heed safety warnings and weather forecasts before leading a group of backcountry skiers to a portion of Red Mountain Pass where an
The others in the class were caught in the avalanche but were either unburied or partially buried in the snowfall. Marshall was the only fatality. He was 40.
Wrongful death lawsuit targets Silverton Avalanche School
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Man was buried and killed during a safety class near Red Mountain Pass
Thursday, Jan. 7, 2021 9:30 AM Updated: Thursday, Jan. 7, 2021 11:32 PM The Colorado Avalanche Information Center report on the Jan. 5 fatal avalanche included this photograph looking across U.S. Highway 550 into Sen. Beck Basin up Red Mountain Pass. The red circle marks the area of the avalanche accident. Courtesy of CSAS, NASA Airborne Snow Observatory, and SnowEx
Wrongful death lawsuit targets Silverton Avalanche School The Colorado Avalanche Information Center report on the Jan. 5 fatal avalanche included this photograph looking across U.S. Highway 550 into Sen. Beck Basin up Red Mountain Pass. The red circle marks the area of the avalanche accident.
The Colorado Avalanche Information Center report on the Jan. 5 fatal avalanche included this photograph looking across US Highway 550 into Sen. Beck Basin up Red Mountain Pass. The red circle marks the area of the avalanche accident (Courtesy of CSAS, NASA Airborne Snow Observatory, and SnowEx).
The family of a Longmont man killed in an avalanche safety class near Silverton is suing the guide, school and local rescue group as well as the maker of an avalanche airbag and its private equity firm owner. The lawsuit marks the second legal action involving avalanches in recent months based on research, interviews and reports gathered by the Colorado Avalanche Information Center.