A skier and physicist at the University of Colorado Boulder who studies avalanches explains what happens in an avalanche and ...

Colorado avalanche experts say a snowy November followed by a mild December created a fragile snowpack that was covered by a ...

The stability of Colorado’s current snowpack is comparable to a house of cards, as demonstrated by the number of avalanche warnings, watches and special avalanche advisories issued by the Colorado ...

A skier was killed in an avalanche on January 7, 2025 on Red Mountain Pass in Colorado. Following the accident, the Colorado ...

Ed LaChapelle, a coinventor of the modern avalanche transceiver, has some strange, wonderful ideas about snow New perk: ...

She spotted an avalanche on the slope, initiated a transceiver search and immediately acquired a signal, the report said. She ...

In Siskiyou County, Mt. Shasta climbing rangers snowmobiled to safety a stranded goose from the Old Ski Bowl at 10,000 feet.

A perfectly placed webcam caught patrollers at Solitude triggering a massive slide while performing avalanche mitigation.

SALT LAKE CITY ( ABC4) — An avalanche in Big Cottonwood Canyon over the weekend caught one skier, partially burying them in ...

Shortly after noon on Sunday, a snow avalanche detached in the mountains of Verbano, in the municipal territory of Trasquera, ...

That granular, icier snow is a weak layer. When a new snowfall dumps on top of it, the grains in the weak layer can shear, creating a surface for an avalanche to slide on. The weight of new ...