Flipping through field notebooks…
... such as how wind spreads snow unevenly across the landscape, explained Ben Pritchett, senior forecaster at the Colorado Avalanche Information Center. Ian Breckheimer, an ecologist with the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, measures snow from space... ... frustrating frequency as he'd ski mellow loops through spruce trees looking for animal tracks - another data point he collects. He feared it might be his last year in Gothic , a former mining town turned into a research facility owned by