Tuckerman Ravine on New Hampshire’s Mount Washington is an iconic place. Each year, thousands of skiers and hikers visit the spectacular glacial cirque on the southeast face of the massive mountain.

A snowboarder at Tuckerman Ravine on Mount Washington was swept into an avalanche caused by a nearby skier Saturday afternoon, said Jeff Fongemie, director of the Mount Washington Avalanche Center.

Though the calendar may be signaling the beginning of ski season at Tuckerman Ravine, that doesn’t mean conditions at the famous Mount Washington cirque are necessarily safe. Two skiers found ...

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“It’s a spring party up there [in Tuckerman’s Ravine] and that’s the way it’s been for a long time,” he said. “We’re building on a long history of that place being a destination.

FILE - Tuckerman Ravine is seen at left, about one mile below the summit of 6,288-foot Mount Washington, in New Hampshire, Monday, May 4, 2015. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File) ...

One danger people will find this spring, different than most, is that the 2.4 mile climb up to Hermit Lake Shelter on the Tuckerman Ravine trail is full of hard-packed ice and it is very slippery.

Tuckerman Ravine is a unique terrain feature by East Coast standards. While New England is no stranger to towering peaks, the majority of terrain is densely covered in trees.

Tuckerman Ravine has lines ranging from 40 degrees to 55 degrees. The snowboarder was attempting to descend The Chute, located to the left in the Center Bowl, but tomahawked down, reminding ...

A group of bystanders jumped into action at Tuckerman Ravine during Memorial Day weekend. On Sunday at about 1:20 p.m. a Mount Washington Volunteer Ski Patroller notified a lead snow ranger that ...

While early April coddled the East Coast with balmy 80-degree temperatures, mid-April saw flurries in Jackson, N.H.. Jackson is a half-hour drive from Pinkham Notch, the staging area for the White ...