Feb. 27—Two avalanches were triggered by skiers Wednesday in the White Mountains, the Mount Washington Avalanche Center reported. All skiers involved in the incidents survived, with one rescued after ...

Christmas Day rain left dangerous conditions in the Wasatch Mountains last weekend, even leading to multiple avalanches being ...

Multiple states across the U.S. have been issued winter storm warnings, which forecast that up to 20 inches of snow could blast certain areas, from Wednesday through Thursday and Friday, and in some ...

An avalanche swept up skiers at Lake Tahoe’s largest ski resort on Jan. 10, 2024, as a 150-foot-wide sheet of snow slid down a mountain slope into a pile 10 feet deep. One person died in the avalanche ...

The Utah Avalanche Center (UAC) is warning of avalanche conditions throughout northern Utah after heavy snow has braced the ...

Know the Snow Fund (KTSF), a local nonprofit dedicated to avalanche awareness and education, announced its 10-year anniversary of service. The nonprofit was created in 2014, a year after two Durango ...

Snow avalanches represent one of the most dramatic manifestations of the Earth's cryospheric dynamics. Recent studies combine experimental field investigations and advanced numerical simulations to ...

The behavior of an avalanche depends on the structure of the snowpack, but that’s only one ingredient. An avalanche requires all the wrong conditions at the wrong time. The angle of the mountain slope ...