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 important ...

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

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 ...

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

An avalanche requires all the wrong conditions at the wrong time. The angle of the mountain slope is important. Slopes between 25 and 40 degrees run the greatest risk of avalanches. Those are also ...

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 ...