A hard-charging Teton Pass skier once told me that avalanche-control ... angle acreage while staff runs control routes and blasts slopes as needed with small hand charges, which have a much ...

VICKI: Caltrans tested its avalanche control equipment on Thursday to prepare ... “We don’t have to go in with hand charges—which was the old-fashioned way of doing it,” Nelson said.

Snow avalanche blasting charges can be tossed by hand, deployed from a ski lift, tram, helicopter, avalanche launcher or remote control devices. Fuses on the devices should allow a minimum of 90 ...

At a typical Western North American resort, avalanche control is conducted by a large team of ski patrollers using a combination of cannons, hand charges, and a number of other tools. To whatever ...

The towers are remote avalanche control systems that can be triggered ... (Another avalanche tactic that originated with Atwater — throwing hand charges into avalanche paths — will continue ...

(Photo by Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post) CDOT’s expansion to install 50 more Remote Avalanche Control Systems, pending approvals from the U.S. Forest Service, is being planned to start as ...