The
'before' situation, with collapsed snow fencing and steel posts
littering a hillside above US Hwy 550 near Red Mountain Pass. |
Rolling
up the old wood-lath snowfencing for piling and eventual (USFS
approved) burning. |
Removed
steel posts and wire in a Colorado Department of Transportation
dumptruck headed for recycling |
COBS
students policing the site for snowfence and wire litter, with
the snowfence 'burn pile' in the background |
COBS
students and Chris Landry winching an 80-pound experimental
'blaster can' out of the Willow avalanche path starting zone
above Hwy 550. The device, a precursor to effective modern systems,
was filled with acetylene gas and then ignited, driving the
can's lid upward into the snowpack in a generally unsuccessful
effort to artificially trigger avalanches. This and two other
'cans' are being saved by the CSAS. |
COBS
students practicing their recently acquired mountain rescue
skills by hauling a 'blaster can' to the highway in a wheeled
litter. Very difficult!
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