Recent high winds and unseasonable warmth in Southcentral Alaska have created prime avalanche conditions. The Chugach National Forest’s Avalanche Information Center’s Wendy Wagner is warning of considerable danger for all upper elevation slopes at Turnagain Pass.
Rain on snow and wind over the past weekend created the considerable danger. Wagner says in a taped advisory Monday morning that the danger will likely continue through Tuesday.
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APTI Reporter-Producer Ellen Lockyer started her radio career in the late 1980s, after a stint at bush Alaska weekly newspapers, the Copper Valley Views and the Cordova Times. When the Exxon Valdez ran aground in Prince William Sound, Valdez Public Radio station KCHU needed a reporter, and Ellen picked up the microphone.
Since then, she has literally traveled the length of the state, from Attu to Eagle and from Barrow to Juneau, covering Alaska stories on the ground for the AK show, Alaska News Nightly, the Alaska Morning News and for Anchorage public radio station, KSKA
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