Ghostriders in the Sky Prevent Avalanches
By Damon Agnos
Tuesday, Jan. 6 2009 @ 8:38AM
Tom Paulson at the P-I has a fascinating story this morning on the state Department of Transportation's avalanche forecasting and control team. My favorite part is this—one of the most bizarre images I've encountered in a news story in a long time:
As wet snow whipped by fierce winds slapped his face, Stimberis stood in the middle of a deserted, snow-covered I-90 as fellow avalanche guy Kevin Marston pedaled furiously on a stationary bicycle about 30 feet up in the air on a metal stand. Attached to the bicycle was a cable that, as Marston pedaled, lifted a 25-pound bag of explosives up toward a steep hillside in an area dubbed Airplane.Sadly, while the accompanying slideshow has a lot of good shots, it doesn't have one of Marston on his elevated stationary bike.
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