Colorado’s First 2 Avalanche Deaths Prompt Warning About Going To Backcountry

BOULDER COUNTY, Colo. (CBS4) – Authorities are warning about avalanches in the high country after a slide Thursday killed a man on a snowmobile near Kebler Pass in the Gunnison National Forest. Another man’s body was recovered on Saturday from an avalanche on St. Mary’s Glacier.
The man who died on St. Mary’s Glacier was the first avalanche death in Colorado this year.
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Much of the state is at moderate or considerable risk. It’s important of knowing the