Incredible video shows an avalanche across from the Cascade Pass Trail. Jack Carr was hiking about an hour from Marblemount, Washington when he saw snow and mud crashing down the hillside. He ...

Last Friday, February 28, 2025, a snowmobiler was killed by an avalanche northwest of Mazama, Washington, near Harts Pass, according to a preliminary report from the Northwest Avalanche Center (NWAC).

A snowmobiler has died after being caught in an avalanche in the North Cascade mountains, according to the Northwest Avalanche Center. A group of three snowmobile riders were near Hart’s Pass on ...

The latest snowpack map shows the Olympics and Cascades are running well more than 100 percent of normal. I asked the Northwest Avalanche Center Forecast Director Dennis D'Amico if these are the ...

Elsewhere, three people died in avalanches Feb. 17 — one person near Lake Tahoe and two backcountry skiers in Oregon’s ...

Snoqualmie Pass will remain closed Thursday morning, with no new estimate on when the mountain road might reopen, according to the state Department of Transportation. Snoqualmie Pass stopped again ...

The avalanche disaster prompted construction of a second Cascade tunnel under Stevens Pass. This longer, 7.8 mile tunnel was cut through the mountains at a much lower elevation, just under 2,900 feet.

"The White Cascade: The Great Northern Railway Disaster and America's Deadliest Avalanche" by Gary Krist (Henry Holt and Co., 336 pages, $26) Skip to main content Arrow-right ...

STEVENS PASS — Travelers who plan to cross the mountains ought to check the pass reports first. Two of Washington’s three main east-west mountain passes were expected to remain closed Thursday ...

3 Killed in Avalanche in Washington’s Cascade Mountains The climbers had been trying to reach an 8,705-foot peak when a mass of snow, ice and rock crashed down on them, the authorities said ...

“The White Cascade: The Great Northern Railway Disaster and America’s Deadliest Avalanche” by Gary Krist Henry Holt, 305 pp., $26. They still don’t know for certain how many died.

WINTER PARK, Colo. (AP) — One person was killed in an avalanche in central Colorado on Saturday, marking just the latest ...