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

The state Department of Transportation and the local electric utility re-installed scientific instruments to help them ...

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

The National Weather Service says there’s a chance of weekend snow in the Puget Sound lowlands, including the Seattle area. “We’ll see increasing showers spreading down from the north during the day ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. With more snow predicted for the mountains this weekend, avalanche conditions could escalate, ...

After a dry snow season so far, avalanche danger across Utah’s central and northern mountains is expected to skyrocket this weekend, posing a significant threat to anyone planning to hit the ...

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 ...

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 popular backcountry mapping service, onX, just released an updated version of its avalanche tools just in time for ...

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 ...