While training and technology may slow fatality rates, some experts fear that the Rockies are following the residential development of the Alps, allowing homes to be built at the bases of old avalanche chutes.
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One Northwest congressman privately compares life with Bill Clinton to being roped to a climbing leader who has a shaky sense of direction and a habit of lingering at the base of avalanche chutes.
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In many areas, it is a highly characteristic colonist of avalanche chutes in mountains, where potentially competing larger trees are killed by regular avalanche damage . " A . viridis " survives the avalanches through its ability to re-grow from the roots and broken stumps.
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It was an uphill battle, quite literally, as those early riders were relegated to a lone lift at Berthoud Pass or a half-day's drive from Denver to Wolf Creek, more often choosing to take their chances on the avalanche chutes of Loveland Pass with the hopes of hitching a ride back up to the summit between powder runs.
