You just have to be knowledgeable, prepared, and humble enough to listen. A small slab avalanche breaks under our feet during a high danger field session. We are purposefully staying on low angle ...

In a gliding avalanche, the entire snowpack slides down a suitable substratum such as grass or slabs of rock. Such avalanches ...

At the time of the slide, the avalanche danger was rated as Considerable at elevations above 4500 ft with wet slabs like this one being the top problem. Temperatures in the area stayed above ...

This Sunday, March 23, 2025, image released by the Chugach National Forest Avalanche Center shows the aftermath of a slab avalanche that killed a snow machine rider on Saturday, March 22 ...

“The same slope may go from only having a small amount of wind-blown snow in the morning to holding a wind slab large enough to bury a person while you have lunch.” A year ago, a deadly avalanche at ...

At the time of the slide, the avalanche danger was rated as Considerable at elevations above 4500 ft with wet slabs like this one being the top problem. Temperatures in the area stayed above freezing ...

Photo: Brent Okita and Andrew Longstreth/Crystal Mountain At the time of the slide, the avalanche danger was rated as Considerable at elevations above 4500 ft with wet slabs like this ...