Hey, you're listening outside in, I'm Nate Hegey, and we have some pretty cool news.

This summer we won a national award, a Murrow, for one of our episodes that aired last

year.

Now, for those of you who don't know, the award is named after the famous broadcaster,

Edward R. Murrow.

It's been around for more than 50 years, and it's given out annually to some of the best

work produced by Radio and TV stations.

It's kind of like an Emmy.

We won best news documentary for our episode after the avalanche.

It was produced by Jessica Hunt, who recently left the show this summer, but she is a rad

person to work with, and she has a great eye for solid stories, including this one.

So in honor of Jessica and the Murrow award we won, we are going to replay after the avalanche,

which first aired last May.

We are really proud of it, and if you haven't heard it, it's worth a listen.

Quick heads up.

This is a pretty emotionally intense story, I just thought you should know in advance.

On April 11th, 2019, the weather was what backcountry skiers call a bluebird day.

The sky was piercing blue, the snow was sparkling, and the sun was warm.

It was a sunny day, clear, the kind of day that brings people out to recreate.

And Frank Karris was investigating a possible avalanche.

You could see what's called a crown line, it's a cut across the snow, where everything

underneath it has fractured and tumbled down the slope.

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