--- title: See Colorado Avalanche Hit Canyon Highway in Viral Video description: A Colorado motorist captured the terrifying moment when an avalanche hit a canyon, sending some major powder on an adjoining highway. canonical: https://time.com/5542915/colorado-avalanche-highway/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-03-04T16:49:31.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:57:50.188Z og:title: Video Captures Terrifying Moment Avalanche Hits a Mountain og:description: Here's what you need to know og:url: https://time.com/5542915/colorado-avalanche-highway/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8c69b1ed350dc434/6989462c4ee2629ec03141e1/colorado-avalanche-highway.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Avalanche survivor buried for three hours og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Video Captures Terrifying Moment Avalanche Hits a Mountain twitter:description: Here's what you need to know twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8c69b1ed350dc434/6989462c4ee2629ec03141e1/colorado-avalanche-highway.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Video Captures Terrifying Moment of an Avalanche Whiting Out Entire Highway Stretch  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Mar 4, 2019 4:49 PM UTC  WALDEN, CO - MARCH 27: Sam McCloskey and Andrew Maddox made a life-saving ride at the site of a recent avalanche rescue just off of Cameron Pass on Highway 14 between Walden and Fort Collins. Alex White was buried for three hours earlier this month. He survived the slide after McCloskey and Maddox rode treacherous terrain on snowmobiles to uncover him. (Photo by AAron Ontiveroz/The Denver Post via Getty Images) WALDEN, CO - MARCH 27: Sam McCloskey and Andrew Maddox made a life-saving ride at the site of a recent avalanche rescue just off of Cameron Pass on Highway 14 between Walden and Fort Collins. Alex White was buried for three hours earlier this month. He survived the slide after McCloskey and Maddox rode treacherous terrain on snowmobiles to uncover him. (Photo by AAron Ontiveroz/The Denver Post via Getty Images)AAron Ontiveroz—Denver Post/Getty Images  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Mar 4, 2019 4:49 PM UTC A Colorado motorist had a snow day to remember when he witnessed and recorded the show-stopping moment when [an avalanche](http://time.com/5506751/avalanche-taos-ski-resort/) raced into a canyon on Sunday, filling the adjacent highway with snow. According to [_Fox 31_](https://www.foxnews.com/us/avalanche-barrels-down-colorado-canyon-plume-of-snow-covers-cars-on-interstate-70-in-video), Jacob Easton traveling with his father through Colorado’s Ten Mile Canyon on Interstate 70 when the avalanche came hammering down the mountain; Easton pulled the car over, where he recorded the snow falling down the mountain, where it blanketed not only Easton’s windshield, but the whole highway. “All of a sudden, me and my dad just saw a big white cloud to the left of us and we instantly noticed the avalanche,” Easton said of the experience. “It’s exciting, but pretty nerve-wracking because you don’t know when it’s going to stop.” The avalanche was one of several reported in Colorado over the weekend; other footage from the Colorado Avalanche Information Center shows more of the avalanche’s journey from a different angle. 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