“Lucky” skier avoids dangerous avalanche in Gore Range over the spring holiday weekend
Denver Post
A skier in the Gore Range had a close call with a relatively large avalanche on Monday, May 27, highlighting the continued need for caution in the backcountry, according to the Colorado Avalanche Information Center.
Nobody was caught, but the slide ran an estimated 1,100 feet down the slope of Keller Mountain, Jason Killgore, the skier who witnessed the slide wrote in a field report. It was one of two near misses reported to the avalanche center on the Monday holiday.
“I was lucky to have a decent safe zone nearby when the slide caught up to me,” Killgore wrote. “With the amount and density of the snow, getting caught could have been quite traumatic.”
The field report states that the about 6 inches of new snow that had fallen overnight remained “pretty cold but was starting to warm rapidly,” around 9:15 a.m. when Killgore started down into the southeast-facing line.
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