1. Avalanche at Steamboat Resort buried ski patroller, highlights avalanche risk in Colorado A member of Steamboat Ski Resort’s avalanche mitigation team was caught and buried in a slide in a closed section of terrain.
When the 75-foot dam for Stillwater Reservoir was built in 1939 by the Civilian Conservation Corps for the former Yampa Reservoirs Public Irrigation District, it was well constructed to meet engineering standards at the time..