The City of Missoula, Montana, is warning locals against skiing Mt. Jumbo — a hill that borders East Missoula and the Lower ...

Venturing into the backcountry is as alluring as it is dangerous. As soon as you enter terrain that has not been mitigated for avalanche risk, you take the risk of being injured or killed in an ...

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

Most forecasts include information about avalanche risks at specific elevations, slope angles, and aspects. Understanding why certain types of avalanches are more prone to occur is also an ...

Colorado Avalanche Information Center (CAIC) noted in a social media post about the avalanche that the reporting party and others saw signs of wind loading and wind drifted slabs in the area. In ...

Saturday morning saw two avalanches in the Salt Lake area following 11 inches of heavy, wet snowfall in the last 48 hours.

Andy showed us how they had changed the colors of the slope angle shading to provide for a bigger range of skiable, and less avalanche prone areas. Comparing the difference between slope angle ...

that’s a telltale sign that the slope is unstable,” Nikki Champion, a forecaster with the Utah Avalanche Center, told the news station.

This watch is in effect until Tuesday at 5 a.m. Slope: Avalanche generally occur on slopes steeper than 30 degrees Snowpack: Recent avalanches, shooting cracks, and "whumpfing" are signs of ...

Widespread avalanche activity is very likely. Avalanches large enough to bury or injure people are expected," explains the NWS. This warning is in effect until Monday at 4 a.m. Slope: Avalanche ...