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AVERAGE SNOWPACK By Elise Schmelzer This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. It was an average year for Colorado’s snowpack — and that’s great news. The statewide snowpack sat at 109% of the 30-year median on Wednesday, just a few days shy of the normal peak of snowpack for the state. Every major river basin i...
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  By Howard Fendrich and Pat Graham The Associated Press BEAVER CREEK » Ski racers settling into the start gate for Alpine World Cup events in the Rocky Mountains in early December squinted through sunshine that carried the temperature toward 50 degrees and glanced down at a course covered ...
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By Thomas Peipert The Associated Press The sight can be jarring during extreme drought: snowmaking guns lined up on a mountainside, blasting precious crystal flakes on a ski run while the rest of the land goes thirsty. Snowpack in the U.S. West has decreased by about 20% in the last century, maki...
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