After several weeks of quiet thanks to an unseasonably stable snowpack, three men were killed in two avalanches on Feb. 25.
The avalanches – each very different from the other – sent forecasters with .
The two backcountry skiers who died in an avalanche southeast of Vallecito Reservoir during the weekend were identified as James Sutton and Jurgen Montgomery on Monday.
Sutton, 67, was a Durango resid.
Two skiers, snowmobiler died in Colorado avalanches this past weekend. "We still have a lot of avalanche season left," Colorado Avalanche Information Center said.