The Scottish Avalanche Information Service's (SAIS) forecasts are used by hillwalkers, climbers and snowsports enthusiasts to plan their visits to the hills. Its teams of forecasters have encountered ...

This past weekend a heavy winter storm led to an avalanche in Little Cottonwood Canyon on Saturday, Jan. 4. State Road 210 was closed throughout Saturday and Sunday morning as UDOT avalanche ...

An avalanche hit Little Cottonwood Canyon just outside of Salt Lake City over the weekend, coating the slope and neighboring ...

An avalanche mitigation caused snow to plunge down the mountain in Utah. Dramatic footage shows the avalanche gathering speed as it slides down a hillside on January 5, blocking the SR-210 road. The ...

The snow burst through the trees with no warning but a last-second whoosh of sound, a two-story wall of white and Chris Rudolph’s piercing cry: “Avalanche! Elyse!” The very thing the 16 ...

The U.S. Forest Service identifies three general types of avalanches: "sluffs" or loose snow avalanches, wet avalanches, and slab avalanches. Slab avalanches, which occur when a wide layer of a ...

LOGAN CANYON, Utah (KUTV) — A man saved his brother swept up and carried 150 yards by an avalanche ... brother's gloved fingers sticking out of the snow. He suffered only minor injuries ...

The death of a Swiss Olympic snowboarder this week is a reminder that even the most skilled and experienced athletes are not ...