Were managers pushing too hard to open? Are young patrollers afraid to speak up? With two dead in deliberately triggered ...

View post: Remembering The Olympic Athletes Who Dominated Cortina 70 Years Ago Solitude Mountain Resort, Utah, is showing off one of the newer techniques it’s using to control avalanches: Wyssen ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Solitude Mountain Resort, Utah, is showing off one of the newer techniques it’s using to control avalanches: Wyssen Towers. Set to ...

Avalanche season in the Cascades and Olympics is here. This season’s first avalanche fatalities occurred late last week near Mt. Stuart and the Enchantments north of Cle Elum. Two others were in the ...

Solitude Mountain Resort, Utah, is showing off one of the newer techniques it’s using to control avalanches: Wyssen Towers. Set to a fitting techno soundtrack, the video, shared to social media over ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The gas-powered avalanche blasters that Colorado first installed a decade ago are failing, forcing state transportation officials to replace 10 units on ...

Senior Patrol Advisor Andy Sahlfeld has been working with ski patrol at Mt. Baker Ski Area for 28 years, and he says he’s enjoyed every minute of it. “I’ve been asked — you know over the years, after ...

STEVENS PASS, Wash. – US 2 at Stevens Pass will temporarily close on early Friday for the Washington Department of Transportation to perform avalanche control. The closure will take place at 4 a.m. on ...

SEATTLE — On any given winter morning, several members of the Northwest Avalanche Center’s 11-member team commute to one of the region’s hardiest jobs: avalanche observation. From Mount Hood to the ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. A 42-year-old Oregon snowmobiler died Monday in a Lake Tahoe avalanche despite wearing safety beacons and riding ...

Overnight Monday, dozens of first responders, including members of the Tahoe Nordic Search and Rescue Team, cut through fallen trees, dug through deep snow and traversed the area by snowmobile and ...