The local news here in Utah *seems* to have been especially full of stories about avalanches and rock slides this last winter. This may be due to me simply taking note of a perfectly normal series of events; this may be due to the media paying more attention to these perfectly normal events;or it might be just barely possible that there have been more such events than usual. I dunno.
Winter right *here* has been pretty tame this year. But Colorado has been sort of at the edge of the polar vortex, and I believe it’s caught a goodly supply of actual winter weather. Couple that with the ready availability of digital video cameras, and you get some pretty impressive events recorded, such as these avalanches yesterday that buried part of I-70: