Local avalanche conditions will likely worsen next week, with a low-pressure system expected to bring snow starting Wednesday ...

Snow avalanches are natural phenomena that occur when a mass of snow rapidly descends down a slope, often triggered by various factors such as weather conditions, snowpack stability, and terrain.

OURAY COUNTY, Colo. (Gray News) - A woman found her husband dead in three feet of snow after an avalanche in Colorado. According to the Colorado Avalanche Information Center, a woman contacted the ...

Predicting when and where they might happen is currently very difficult leaving local communities vulnerable to this ...

Slopes between 25 and 40 degrees run the greatest risk of avalanches. Those are also ideal for skiing, of course. If the slope is less than 25 degrees, there might be little slips, but the snow ...

“We’ve seen an increase in avalanches. We can infer there’s likely some climate change influence there,” Chapman said. A pattern over the past two years, where snow falls early in November ...

In The Conversation, a physicist explains how avalanches form and what skiers can do to escape and survive them. An avalanche swept up skiers at Lake Tahoe's largest ski resort on Jan. 10, 2024 ...