Silverton Slide: Jeremy Bird recounts being swept onto Colorado route 550 in a January 9 avalanche

On January 9th, residents of the greater Durango, Colo. area, Jeremy Bird and Mark Helmich, set out to tour in Coal Bank Pass in the San Juan Mountains—a day that ended with Bird, 52, getting swept over a cliff and onto route 550 by an avalanche.

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