Beacon, shovel, probe. Skins are on, the snow is fresh, and you’ve checked the forecast. Ready, you aim your skis across the slope and break trail towards one of your favorite stashes just below ...

The Earth is an incredible and, as far as we know, unique mass of matter that’s home to vast oceans, mighty mountains and the dazzling array of life that has come to characterize it. It hoards these ...

On crisp winter mornings, the Utah Avalanche Center employee responsible for publishing daily public avalanche forecasts in the Salt Lake City, Utah, area arrives at an office near the international ...

A Colorado Avalanche Information Center forecaster will be holding a free avalanche awareness talk at the Keystone Science School on Tuesday, Jan. 28. At the event, forecaster Andrew McWilliams will ...

When a person is trapped in an avalanche, there is very little time before their oxygen supply runs out. A new safety device that channels air to the buried person’s face may extend survival and ...

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 ...

The American Avalanche Association, in contrast, is a 501c3 non-profit organization, that according to Joyce Thompson Nolan, Executive Director of A3, sets “the standards and guidelines for [avalanche ...