| The Bureau of Land Management has
provided a Special Use Permit to the CSAS for the Animas
Valley Study Area located just six miles east of
Silverton, and adjoining County Road 3, offering a
convenient and safe site for visiting field camp faculty
and students to use for snow profile exercises, as seen
in the photograph below. A weak, 'continental' snowpack
structure is the norm and, while at the site, students
can also observe an impressive array of nearby avalanche
terrain and discuss the challenges of avalanche
forecasting in a continental snow climate.
Graduate and undergraduate students
from Northern Arizona University performing a formal snowpack profile at the Animas Valley Study Area in late
February, 2005 with their instructor Dr. Lee Dexter.
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