The behavior of an avalanche depends on the structure of the snowpack, but that’s only one ingredient. An avalanche requires all the wrong conditions at the wrong time. The angle of the mountain slope ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Given certain conditions, avalanches are a risk on snow-covered mountains. Mike Reitzell, president of the Petaluma-based organization Ski California, said Wednesday was a tough day. ...

SEATTLE — The Washington Cascades are among the snowiest places in the lower 48 states. All that snow, thousands and tons of it, is often perched atop steep mountainsides. When you add accumulating ...

An avalanche professional friend of mine once told me: “avalanches can do very weird things. The only thing they can’t really do is defy gravity.” Avalanche conditions can change rapidly: slabs form ...

SEATTLE — The closer to spring we get, the more the snow at Snoqualmie Pass adds up - normally peaking in March and April. At the Washington State Department of Transportation’s snow study plot along ...

Snow avalanche research encompasses the study of rapid snow mass movements, integrating aspects of climatology, geophysics and numerical modelling to understand and predict avalanche behaviour. Recent ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. LOVELAND SKI RESORT, Colo. (KDVR) — ...

A triple threat of cooler temperatures, strong winds and areas of heavy snow over the last few days have boosted the avalanche danger heading into the weekend for some of the state's backcountry areas ...