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Thread: Colorado skiers

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    Colorado skiers

    Snow is starting to stick to our high peaks and it's time to start thinking about how quickly it'll slide off those peaks.

    And that means it's time to think about how we can minimize the risk to our skiers that our stupid slick snow pack presents.

    This week in 2005 Sam Teetzen lost his life to an avalanche at Berthoud Pass. Early snow pack may be shallow, but that doesn't mean it's innocuous.

    And here's a few ways you can do your part this week:

    1. Support the Colorado Avalanche Information Center by subscribing to the daily weather and avalanche report.

    2. Attend the grassroots fundraiser in Breck on Nov 8th.

    3. Attend the Friends of Berthoud Pass fundraiser at the Oriental Theater on Nov 7th.

    4. Make a small contribution how ever you can to support avalanche awareness in your community.

    5. Share what you know with everyone who will listen. Urge caution and live to see another season.


    Let's try to make this the first winter in recent memory with no snow fatalities. It takes work, and I know you're up to the task.

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    Repost from last season. Taken on 12-2-07 from the parking lot looking at the West Side. The boarder in the pic would be in a box today if it wasn't for that rock a couple of feet below him acting as an anchor.

    Be careful out there friends.



    Brandine: Now Cletus, if I catch you with pig lipstick on your collar one more time you ain't gonna be allowed to sleep in the barn no more!
    Cletus: Duly noted.

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    Damn. ^^^^
    That's a sobering picture.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pinner View Post
    And here's a few ways you can do your part this week...
    Great post. Looking forward to the FOBP avalanche awareness course in Golden on Wednesday

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pinner View Post
    5. Share what you know with everyone who will listen. Urge caution and live to SKI another season.
    Fixed it for ya.
    I don't like being outdoors Smithers, for one thing, there's too many fat children.

    - Mr. Burns

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    That pic =

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