Avalanche in Flattop Mountains, Colorado

Avalanche March 17, 2002 · Flattop Mountains, Colorado

Death

The wider storm

Snowmobilers triggered a medium-sized soft-slab avalanche on Pagoda Peak, 36 miles southwest of Steamboat Springs in northeast Rio Blanco County. The slide buried and killed one man under 3 feet of snow while still on his snowmobile and partly buried another person. The slide was 300 to 400 feet wide and traveled 400 vertical feet.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5284924. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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