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

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.

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

Snowfall in Colorado has been lackluster to start the ski season, but for backcountry enthusiasts the lack of early-season ...

Just one month after the Wasatch Mountains received their first snow of the season, avalanches have already begun.

David Linder and Charles Eppard, both 39, and Jeremy Leif, 38, were caught in an avalanche near Girdwood, Alaska in March ...

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

Washington transportation officials will no longer rely on a collection of artillery to shoot loose snow on Snoqualmie Pass ...

A lack of early-season snow isn’t great for the state’s water supply. But it can have a surprising benefit in the mountains.

Since the 1980s, transportation crews have used artillery including a recoilless rifle, an M60 tank and a World War II-era Howitzer to shoot snow loose.

Avalanche forecasters warned of “a very active glide avalanche cycle” in Chugach National Forest, which includes popular ...