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Rescue workers responded to a scary incident on Torreys Peak on Sunday morning after a group of climbers were caught in a slide of rocks and snow. Nobody was seriously injured in the incident. At.
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A case that drew the attention of backcountry recreators across the Mountain West has come to a close.
Evan Hannibal and Tyler Dewitt
set off a backcountry avalanche in Colorado more than a year ago. That slide covered a service road and destroyed an avalanche mitigation device.
They were then charged with reckless endangerment, and prosecutors planned to use the snowboarders own camera footage that they gave to the Colorado Avalanche Information Center. That alarmed some backcountry experts, who thought this kind of prosecution might discourage backcountry recreators from reporting avalanches, which could have deadly consequences.
Summit County District Attorney Heidi McCollum argued