Folks in the San Juan Mountain community of Silverton, who know a thing or two about snow, called a day last February “Snowpocalypse” and it was bad. Very bad.
Total white out, snow blowing sideways, .
A 67-year-old doctor and longtime resident of Ophir died Monday in an avalanche near his hometown, which is nestled in the San Juan Mountains south of Telluride.
The San Miguel County Sheriff’s Office.