Storms near Aspen Thursday evening created mudslides that closed Highways 133 and 82.
“This is a major washout of a number of areas,” said Pitkin County Deputy Sheriff Jeff Lumsden.
“It came down. The worst was right before I arrived at 5:10,” he said. “It was pounding down so hard I couldn’t hear my car’s police radio.”
It was impossible to determine how many slides there were because of their size and frequency, he said. One slide buried about 100 yards of the highway in mud and debris four to six feet deep, with boulders reported to be the size of cars, Lumsden said. A different section of the road was covered by six to eight feet of mud and rock.
Lumsden said he was unaware of any motorists getting stuck in the mudslides.
Crews from the CDOT and Pitkin County were using front end loaders to move the debris, but the estimate was it would take all night to get the massive job done.
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