Why do lifts and pistes close when the avalanche risk is high? Following periods of heavy snow and high winds resorts may be ...

In winter, avalanches pose the biggest danger in the mountains. Avalanche monitoring is therefore of critical importance to ...

Saugstad called 911. It was 12:40 p.m. “I’m reporting an avalanche,” she said, breathlessly. Frantic voices behind her shouted encouragement. “Come on! You can do it! Come on, buddy!

EVEN A MINOR AVALANCHE CAN BURY SOMEONE UNDER MULTIPLE ... AND NOW I’M LIKE, OH, OKAY, THAT’S HOW YOU DO IT. AND IT COULD SAVE LIVES. WE’RE NO STRANGERS TO AVALANCHES IN THE NORTHEAST.

The Colorado Avalanche rolled into the holiday break with its best run of results, but it remains a hard team to place in the ...

An avalanche this week buried a snowmobiler in northern Utah in what forecasters called the first accident of the season. Fortunately, the man survived. A snowmobiler was “side-hilling” in a ...

“We are not going to do everything that is expected of us with fewer people,” Moore said during the conference. The news sounded alarm bells within the Forest Service’s 14 avalanche ...

Silver Mountain, a popular ski resort located in Kellogg, Idaho, is reminding their skiers and riders to respect resort boundaries after multiple snowboarders were caught in an avalanche on December ...

The Avalanche went from rarely receiving decent goaltending during the first two months of the season to getting solid ...