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What changing winters mean for avalanche risk

Wendy Antibus on Mt Rose snowshoe trail. (Courtesy of Kaleb Roedel/Mountain West News Bureau).
Wendy Antibus on Mt Rose snowshoe trail. (Courtesy of Kaleb Roedel/Mountain West News Bureau).

A month after nine people were killed in an avalanche near Lake Tahoe, California, Here & Now‘s Peter O’Dowd speaks with Kaleb Roedel, a senior correspondent for the Mountain West News Bureau, about how climate patterns across the West may be making avalanche conditions harder to predict.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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