For 100 years they've kept a record of the snowpack up at the Climax mine up by Leadville, and over the last 100 years the average has been 20 ft, the lowest in 100 years was 15 ft, and this year was 5 ft.
Not verifiableJohn Hickenlooper, at Colorado U.S. Senate General Election Debate (Colorado Sun)
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Why we checked itSpecific historical snowpack figures (100-year average of 20 ft, all-time low of 15 ft, this year's record of 5 ft) at a named location are concrete, verifiable claims about climate data that, if wrong, would undermine the argument being made.
What we foundThe specific figures cited for the Climax mine snowpack record — a 100-year average of 20 ft, prior minimum of 15 ft, and 2026 reading of 5 ft — cannot be confirmed or refuted by any available primary source.