Also, heading into the weekend some of our southern mountains may see up to a foot of snow in the San Juan and Sangre De Cristo Mountains. "We've moved away from wet avalanche activity and back ...

The debris will break your bones, and if you survive that the snow will often suffocate you in about 15 minutes. I went up into the mountains with the avalanche specialists working to keep that ...

Tuckerman Ravine, New Hampshire’s mecca for backcountry skiers, lures athletes, daredevils and would-be conquerors throughout ...

At least seven people have died while skiing or snowboarding so far ... avalanche conditions. He said the warm conditions currently in the mountains does lead to a higher potential for loose snow ...

In a gliding avalanche, the entire snowpack slides down a suitable substratum such as grass or slabs of rock. Such avalanches are always released naturally. This requires the snow on the ground to ...

Avalanche generally occur on slopes steeper than 30 degrees Snowpack: Recent avalanches, shooting cracks, and "whumpfing" are signs of unstable snow Trigger: Sometimes it doesn't take much to tip ...

These two activities and more are on the list for this weekend’s April Avalanche event. “Instead of just watching the snow melt away on the mountain, we wanted to come up with a fun way to ...

Nepali mountaineers on Tuesday searched for two people swept away by a powerful avalanche on the world's ... when they were hit by huge blocks of snow. It swept away two climbers -- Ngima Tashi ...

At least seven people have died while skiing or snowboarding so far ... Avalanche Center or Mount Shasta Avalanche Center to check avalanche conditions. He said the warm conditions currently in the ...