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Colorado’s Snow Is Vanishing Into Thin Air

This story was originally published in High Country News.High winds tore at Gothic Mountain as the sleeping giant watched over the cabins nestled in Gothic, Colorado, a remote outpost accessible only by skis during the valley’s harsh alpine winters. The plumes of snow that lifted from the peak briefly appeared to form a cloud and then disappeared.To many, the snow that seemed to vanish into thin air would go unnoticed.