The Colorado Avalanche Information Center released its full accident report on the March 7 avalanche south of Ptarmigan Pass in Eagle County near Vail Pass that killed a Silverthorne man. The slide ...

The search for a Minnesota man trapped by a Feb. 22 avalanche in East Idaho was complicated by his father also being buried ...

California’s worker safety regulator found Mammoth Mountain at fault in the death of a ski patroller last season in an avalanche, determining the resort “failed” to provide necessary safeguards for ...

Not everyone needs a backpack for skiing, but if you do, you want to make sure it’s right for you. Some people will ski ...

Although the victim and his father were both wearing avalanche transceivers and air bags, the two searchers were slowed by overlapping transceiver signals.

The story of how nine skiers were killed, and six survived, in the deadliest avalanche in modern California history.

An avalanche — a mass of snow moving down a slope — happens most often in the wilderness. Watching for forecasts, bringing the proper gear and getting training to prepare for them can help with ...

THERE WERE 50 PEOPLE. A LOT OF THEM ARE VOLUNTEERS THAT WENT OUT. WE WANT TO GET BACK TO KCRA 3’S BRIAN HICKEY, WHO GREW UP IN THE HIGH COUNTRY, VERY EXPERIENCED BACKCOUNTRY SKIER. AND YOU KNOW, IS ...