AVALANCHE WARNING TERMINATION...  BULLETIN NO. 5
COLORADO AVALANCHE INFORMATION CENTER
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO 
4 PM FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1996
                     ...AVALANCHE WARNING DROPPED...
SINCE THE WARNING WAS ISSUED ON FEBRUARY 21 MORE THAN 260
AVALANCHES HAVE BEEN REPORTED FROM THE WARNING AREA.  
ONE AVALANCHE RELATED FATALITY OCCURRED WHEN A ROOF AVALANCHED AND
KILLED A WOMEN IN VAIL.  THIS IS THE SIXTH AVALANCHE FATALITY IN
COLORADO THIS WINTER.
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TOEPFER
COLORADO AVALANCHE INFORMATION CENTER
9596 8-6
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Excerpt from a Vail News Article later in the year:
Others who have died in Colorado this season were also backcountry 
skiers, snowboarders or climbers, with the exception of Alice Cartwright. The 
East Vail woman died Feb. 21 when snow slid off her roof and buried her.
"That was a classic slab avalanche," Atkins said. "It doesn't matter if the
slab is off your roof or off a mountain."