It’s Glude’s job to forecast avalanche conditions. He advises the Alaska Department of Transportation when to shut down the highway for safety and when avalanche control is necessary ... observations ...

STEVENS PASS, Wash. — Highway 2 near the summit of Steven's Pass will be closed Thursday morning for avalanche control. According to the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT ...

Billy Newman had two questions on his mind on Thursday morning: would he need to blast the mountain later that day? And if so, when? Snow had begun barrelling across parts of Highway 50 the night ...

As the mountain snow piles up, WSDOT crews use the two-meter mark on the snow stick as the benchmark when they often begin considering avalanche control measures to keep snow from sliding off the ...

Rescuers in a county in Colorado's high country are talking about the amazing survival of a man trapped beneath an avalanche near Vail Pass for over an hour. "We recovered a live person who's ...

CDOT will close the highway at the location of the avalanche path to conduct avalanche control,” a CDOT spokesperson told FOX31 on Wednesday. “After the highway is closed, CDOT crews bring ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — Search and rescue crews recovered the bodies of two people who died after being buried in an avalanche while recreating in Oregon’s Central Cascade Mountains near a ...

Their activities start early in the morning and include avalanche control, which includes setting off controlled avalanches with explosives, marking hazardous areas, and using ski cuts to ...