The ACES “Wild Perspectives” speaker series is back in action at The Collective in Snowmass Base Village. Plus, Ullr Nights resume this week at Elk Camp.
Cody Townsend's Fifty Project is back with a complete suffer fest on Montana's Mt. Stimson. Cody and Nick Russell put in the hard miles to make it happen.
Art Burrows/courtesy photo
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.”