This season the western U.S. is especially prone to one of the worst layers for wet slabs—depth hoar. Doug Chabot is the director of the Gallatin National Forest Avalanche Center based in Bozeman, ...

While cruising down Colorado's Tea Cup Bowl in Berthoud Pass, a fortunate snowboarder was able to escape what could have a ...

The riders, "knowingly ducked a rope closure line" and triggered a D2 wind slab avalanche that caught three of the four riders in the group. The observation does not include a photo of the avalanche ...

According to the Colorado Avalanche Information Center (CAIC) social media statement, the skier was caught and buried in a slab avalanche, resulting in his death. "The avalanche occurred on a ...

A snowboarder was caught in an avalanche Saturday, Jan. 25, in Tea Cup Bowl on Berthoud Pass, according to the Colorado Avalanche Information Center. The slide, which occurred on a southeast-facing ...

More common for the area, Central Oregon Avalanche Center (COAC) has also cited wind slabs as a consistent problem throughout their forecast season, which began on December 1. Friday, December 20 ...

This avalanche was remotely triggered by three skiers in the slope above them. One of them lost his life in the event. This image relates to an article that appeared in the July 11, 2008, issue of ...

Steamboat Resort experienced its own avalanche around the same time period. The resort dubbed it the largest slab avalanche they've seen at Steamboat in almost two decades. The unstable snow pack ...

A snowboarder triggered – and then outpaced – a slab avalanche on Mount Washington in Sargent’s Purchase, New Hampshire, on November 29. Andrew Drummond captured this video showing the ...

A skier was killed and another injured after the group they were in triggered a large avalanche while ascending ... an elevation of 10,400 feet, a large slab of snow about 5 feet thick broke ...

The riders, "knowingly ducked a rope closure line" and triggered a D2 wind slab avalanche that caught three of the four riders in the group. The observation does not include a photo of the ...