Experts warn that a 150-foot-wide avalanche in Little Cottonwood Canyon over the weekend underscores a danger that exists ...

Avalanches are an ever-present danger when hiking across steep, snowy mountain slopes, so knowing how to read avalanche ...

Despite low snowfall, early season avalanches can happen. The Utah Avalanche Center is trying to get ahead of the slides.

As Colorado watches for the first meaningful pattern changes that could finally bring snow to the high country, avalanche ...

Avalanche danger remains high at upper elevations throughout mountain ranges monitored by the Sawtooth Avalanche Center. In Tuesday’s avalanche report, Ben VandenBos said at Galena Summit and in the ...

Skiers, snowboarders and snowmobilers encourage a backcountry safety mindset — to reduce fatalities — at the annual Wyoming ...

Snowfall in Colorado has been lackluster to start the ski season, but for backcountry enthusiasts the lack of early-season snow has the potential to lead to safer avalanche conditions down the road.

Snow avalanche research encompasses the study of rapid snow mass movements, integrating aspects of climatology, geophysics and numerical modelling to understand and predict avalanche behaviour. Recent ...

Scotland's new avalanche forecasting season will start on 11 December in six mountain areas. Lochaber, Glen Coe, Creag ...

Wagner, director of the Chugach National Forest Avalanche Information Center, passed away in her sleep Nov. 6 after battling ovarian cancer for a year and a half.