Ouray County roads workers have faced record snowpack as they clear high-country routes. This photo of crews working on the road to Yankee Boy Basin was taken earlier this month.
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Snow, slides, avalanches keep Alpine Loop closed
It might be weeks or months before the Alpine Loop is more than an an up-and-back-down route than a true loop, as record snow, landslides, avalanches and floods have created challenges for roads managers in the counties it winds through.
The already narrow snow-free window the 65-mile scenic drive usually faces shrunk even further, as officials in Ouray, Lake City and Silverton battle an epic snowpack year peppered with disaster in some places, preventing access to the road through the alpine tun...
