Amid a steady stream of avalanches due to new snow and warm temperatures this week, adventurers determined to explore the ...

The long-promised Internationale lift at Alpental, the expert area at The Summit at Snoqualmie, has changed how skiers and ...

and terrain. Understanding the dynamics of snow avalanches and analyzing their stability is crucial for improving safety measures in avalanche-prone areas. Recent research has focused on various ...

Vail Resorts has given the same raises to a handful of non-unionized ski patrols that the Park City Mountain union won after ...

The Utah Avalanche Center warned of dangerous avalanche conditions expected to develop across northern Utah beginning ...

even when you are not directly on a slope that is avalanche prone. The scale is broken into these terrain categories: Simple, Challenging, Complex, or Extreme to classify different complexities of ...

Venturing into the backcountry is as alluring as it is dangerous. As soon as you enter terrain that has not been mitigated ...

As you might have noted, bootpacking is not a beginner-friendly backcountry skiing technique and is reserved for expert skiers, who also know how to read and avoid avalanche-prone terrain.

Seven people were caught and carried in an avalanche Monday in backcountry terrain south of Jackson Hole Mountain Resort, ...

Level 2: Moderate - Heightened avalanche conditions on specific terrain features, evaluate terrain and snowpack. Level 3: Considerable - Dangerous avalanche conditions, remain cautious when ...

OnX Backcountry recently rolled out new in-app avalanche tools, so we tested it on a day of backcountry ski touring in the Wasatch.