Colorado Avalanche Risk Increasing

The Colorado Avalanche Information Center says the risk of avalanches in the backcountry is continuing to increase. The organization's latest data shows that eight of the ten areas currently shown on their interactive map are at considerable risk of having avalanches. The state's snowpack is at 125-percent of normal for this time of year, and the CAIC says there were 130 avalanches in Colorado in the first week of December. A Fort Collins woman was killed over the weekend in a Larimer County avalanche, the first avalanche death anywhere in the U.S. so far this ski season.