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CBAC: Examining the Recent Snow

Check out this video from the Crested Butte Avalanche Center in a couple snow pits analyzing the recent snow.  The snow pack is stabilizing, but it doesn’t mean we are 100% good to go.  There has been a lot of recent wi...
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Avalanche Awareness Videos: From Europe and FWT

Avalanche Awareness Videos: From Europe Here is a great edit when during inspection at a European freesking competition a few competitors found themselves staring straight up at an avalanche coming down on them. Luckily there w...
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Beer Tasting Doubles as CB Avy Center Fundraiser at Brick Oven February 8th

The Brick Oven Pizzeria & Pub will be hosting a beer tasting on Saturday, February 8th that will benefit the Crested Butte Avalanche Center. The $25 ticket features Lagunitas Brewing Company, Mission Brewery, Deschutes Brew...
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Crested Butte Avalanche Center: Beacon Brush Up Review

Crested Butte Avalanche Center, Crested Butte Mountain Guides, and The Alpineer’s Inaugural Beacon Brush-Up Day was a HUGE success with well over 100 people coming out to ‘brush-up’ on their beacon skills with...
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Winter Is Here, But Be Careful

The Crested Butte area is about to get its first taste of real winter. Social media will go ballistic. Your most hard-core friends will post pictures of their first faceshots of the season. It’s an exciting time. However, if ...
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Beacon Brush Up: Saturday at Town Park

Crested Butte Avalanche Center, Crested Butte Mountain Guides and The Alpineer team up to host event Saturday, December 1st, 11:00 am Words from cbavalanchecenter.org The Crested Butte Avalanche Center, Crested Butte Mountain ...
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Introducing Project Zero And Backcountry StartsHere.com

We talk about avalanches a lot on this website.  From reposting the CBAC’s daily discussion to sharing scary/educational videos, we want you to have access to as much information as possible because we don’t want a...
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CBAC: 1/31/14 Remotely Triggered Avalanche

In this video, Crested Butte Avalanche Center’s Ian Havlick explains how his crew remotely triggered this large slide in the Anthracite Mesa.  Careful out there.  Thanks to the CBAC for all you do.
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Will Dujardin making the best of low-angle blue bird in the Anthracites on Tuesday. Photo: Trent Bona

Photo Gallery: November Snow Brings Powder and Sketchiness

The storm last weekend was a welcome mental relief.  Check out this photo gallery of the new snow. As for snow conditions, they were sketchy, to say the least.  Skiers triggered an avalanche in College bowl on the NW side of ...
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Large Natural Avalanche in Anthracites

Crested Butte Avalanche Center forecaster Zach Guy investigates the large natural avalanche that occurred on the wind loaded East Bowl of the Anthracites.  
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