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Two deaths in the backcountry this week and a surge in skier-involved avalanches have prodded the Colorado Avalanche Information Center to issue a "special advisory statement" warning backcountry travelers of the likelihood of large and dangerous avalanches across the state.
VIDEO: Close call in an avalanche
"Do not let the upcoming holiday weekend or the nice weather in any way fool you into thinking the avalanche conditions are anything but very serious across Colorado," reads the center's statement issued early Friday.
A Keystone ski patroller was killed Thursday in an avalanche near Wolf Creek Pass, becoming the sixth avalanche fatality in a season of sketchy snowpack. A longtime Telluride local snowboarder was killed in an avalanche on Monday in the Bear Creek drainage just outside Telluride ski area.
"We have to go back 30 years to see this kind of widespread danger," said Dale Atkins , the president of the American Avalanche Association who worked 20 years as a forecaster for the Colorado Avalanche Information Center.Read more here ...
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