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Colorado snowpack data can mislead hikers on peak conditions

Colorado's snowpack has mostly melted, but hikers are still hitting pockets of deep snow on higher summits. Here's the ...
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Colorado’s snowpack just hit the worst year in recorded history — and Oregon declares early wildfire season through October

Together, these two developments mark the sharpest signal yet that the American West is heading into summer 2026 with a dangerously thin margin of stored water and an extended window of fire risk that ...
The Aspen Times

As Colorado faces historically bad snowpack, a new study links low snow with more severe wildfires that damage forests

A new study out of Western Colorado University has implications for the wildfire season ahead as nearly the entire West faces record-low snowpack conditions. The paper, published last month in the ...
CU Boulder News & Events

Colorado snowpack tells a troubling story for water and wildfire in the West

At 9,500 feet on an early spring day, Jennifer Kay would usually expect to find thick snow blanketing the CU Boulder’s Mountain Research Station at Niwot Ridge, an alpine monitoring and research site ...
Vail Daily

It’s official: This is Colorado’s worst snowpack year on record, as some mountain sites start April snowless for first time ever

Large swathes of the Colorado Rocky Mountains that are usually covered in snow this time of year started out the month barren, leading climate experts say the state is officially facing its worst ...