“Because the new snow will overload weak, pre-existing faceted snow, avalanches may be triggered from hundreds of feet away, making for particularly tricky and dangerous conditions,” according ...

The Sawtooth Avalanche Center says because we haven’t had new snow over the past few weeks, the snow surface has become ...

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

Two separate avalanches killed five skiers across the French Alps on Wednesday, according to several news reports. Four of ...

SALT LAKE CITY ( ABC4) — An avalanche in Big Cottonwood Canyon over the weekend caught one skier, partially burying them in ...

A skier was killed in an avalanche on January 7 ... January dropped 24 inches of heavier snow along with strong winds onto the weak, faceted snowpack. 10 more inches of snow in the two days leading up ...

The Ridgway man who died Jan. 7 in an avalanche in southwestern Colorado was found by his wife, who went to the trail after ...

PALMER — The state closed the road into Hatcher Pass last week as avalanche danger spiked amid an unusually warm, wet storm ...

Four Norwegians and a Swiss woman were reportedly killed in avalanches while skiing off-piste in the French Alps on Wednesday ...

BIG COTTONWOOD CANYON (KUTV) — The avalanche that killed a 54-year ... The snowpack showed a dangerous combination of new snow sitting atop weak, faceted layers dating back to early season.

Avalanche safety professionals around the ... and there were loose, angular crystals of faceted snow near the ground. A test showed it was possible to cause fractures within the large, upper ...