LOVELAND SKI AREA, Colo. – Every winter, our state’s transportation department monitors more than 500 known avalanche paths in the high country. Crews spend thousands of hours, triggering and cleaning up hundreds of slides to keep travelers safe.
But as 7NEWS reporter Kristen Skovira discovered, the days of live munition and explosions are changing on two of Colorado’s most avalanche-prone passes.
“Colorado is one of the leaders in how we do avalanche mitigation, obviously we need to be,” said Amy Ford with the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT).