Powder hunters and heli-skiers know very well the treachery and pain of avalanches. They gear themselves up accordingly, including a shovel. The Backcountry Access Arsenal Shovel System with Tour or ...

“I play this out in a spectrum: When I’m working there is no reason for me not to carry avalanche gear,” he said. The corollary is also true: there are many good reasons to carry avalanche gear 100 ...

The A-2 is a 1.9-pound combination snow saw and shovel from Backcountry Access. The shovel blade is made from strong 6061 aluminum. Assembled, it measures 30.5 inches, but packs down to 17 inches.

In what is believed to be a first for a Utah resort, Brighton’s ski patrol required anyone entering the inbounds terrain off of Milly Express to be carrying an avalanche beacon, shovel and probe.

The shovel looks solid enough for doing work on the snow cave (it got plenty of help from more traditional shovels), but it doesn't look like a suitable replacement for an actual avalanche shovel ...

Skier buried alive in California avalanche describes how she survived 01:43. After a Utah man accidentally triggered an avalanche while riding a snowmobile on Christmas Eve, he was able to rescue ...

A report from the Mount Washington Avalanche Center shows that a skier who was killed in an avalanche last week was well-equipped and educated about the dangers, but he was skiing alone, and it ...

He was traveling alone, carried a beacon, probe, and shovel, and planned to avoid avalanche terrain. The skier took his first run down a tightly treed slope back to the road and decided to go ...

The avalanche took place following a storm that saw a foot of snow added to the mountain in late November. Ski Patroller Matt ...

A few weeks ago I set off to ski the north couloir on Feather Peak, deep in the heart of the Eastern Sierra. Feather is eight miles back and nearly 7,000 vertical feet from a trailhead.