Originally Posted by
Nathan Potter
Nice snowfall up ahead there on the right.
The work crews are reporting that today's warm weather is triggering, as expected, several avalanches (like the one on the right); that's good news, because until those road-side cliffs are stable, the Hwy remains closed even if the road surfaces are perfectly snow-free.
From the snow removal reports, this sentence is quite interesting:
...The warm weather continued to trigger natural avalanches and prompted a decision to help that process along with some helicopter avalanche control blasting set for mid-day Thursday. It doesn't gain any new ground, but it should mean it will be safe to drive under those empty avalanche chutes in another week or so...
Sounds like an exciting day for the helicopter pilot!
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