{"id":43023,"date":"2021-12-27T23:17:31","date_gmt":"2021-12-28T06:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/avalanche-mitigation-likely-to-cause-delays-tuesday-at-lizard-head-pass\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T03:11:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:11:12","slug":"avalanche-mitigation-likely-to-cause-delays-tuesday-at-lizard-head-pass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/avalanche-mitigation-likely-to-cause-delays-tuesday-at-lizard-head-pass\/","title":{"rendered":"Avalanche mitigation likely to cause delays Tuesday at Lizard Head Pass"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A triggered slide at Yellow Springs Gully was eight feet deep across a 60-foot stretch of highway, Schwantes said. (Courtesy Colorado Avalanche Information Center)<\/span>Colorado Avalanche Information Center<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Colorado Department of Transportation plans avalanche mitigation operations on Colorado Highway 145 at 7:30 a.m. Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Traffic will be stopped at various locations between Rico and Trout Lake, and motorists will encounter periodic closures throughout the morning, said CDOT spokeswoman Lisa Schwantes in a news release Monday.<\/p>\n

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Avalanche mitigation efforts on Colorado Highway 145 Friday just north of Rico. (Courtesy Colorado Avalanche Information Center)<\/span>Colorado Avalanche Information Center<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The news release also urged backcountry users and recreationists to \u201cwatch where you park.\u201d<\/p>\n

Anyone who leaves an unattended vehicle on the side of the road, runs the risk of breaking the law, being fined and having their vehicle towed. Crews will then clear the shoulders of the roadway and parking areas as time and resources permit, the news release said.<\/p>\n

Backcountry users also were urged to check avalanche conditions at the CAIC website, www.avalanche.state.co.us<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A backcountry skier died in an avalanche Friday afternoon near Cameron Pass, bordering Jackson and Larimer counties on Colorado\u2019s Front Range.<\/p>\n

The death appeared to be the first reported avalanche fatality of the 2021-22 winter season in Colorado<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The avalanche occurred in an area with \u201cconsiderable,\u201d or Level 3, risk of avalanche. CAIC rates risk on five levels of danger, from \u201clow\u201d to \u201cextreme.\u201d<\/p>\n

An avalanche warning was in effect Monday for the southern San Juan Mountains<\/a>. The area\u2019s risk level was Level 4, or \u201chigh.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A triggered slide at Yellow Springs Gully was eight feet deep across a 60-foot stretch of highway, Schwantes said. (Courtesy Colorado Avalanche Information Center)Colorado Avalanche Information Center Colorado Department of Transportation plans avalanche mitigation operations on Colorado Highway 145 at 7:30 a.m. Tuesday. Traffic will be stopped at various locations between Rico and Trout Lake, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43024,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-43023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines"],"acf":[],"author_name":"Website Administrator","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43023"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85542,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43023\/revisions\/85542"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43023"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=43023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}