For 75 years, military artillery has been a central part of avalanche mitigation for ski areas and highway programs. | Photo: Brenden Cronin For almost as long as humans have been riding chairlifts in the big mountains of Western North America, avalanche artillery mitigation has been at the center of a steadily evolving program to understand, predict, and control snowpack hazards. Many a skier has woken up to the thunderous, window-rattling boom…
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