Friends, family, and local conservationists are mourning the loss of philanthropist and respected outdoor advocate Doug Walker Friday after he died while snowshoeing on Granite Mountain. Doug ...

The U.S. Forest Service has closed the trail to Granite Mountain, where 60-year-old Mitch Hungate remains missing after an avalanche. His wife and sister are holding vigil at the trailhead.

Doug Walker, who co-founded the Seattle software company WRQ in 1981 and later went on to become one of the city’s leading philanthropists, died in a hiking accident on Granite Mountain on New ...

A female snowshoer died nearly nine hours after being buried in an avalanche on Red Mountain yesterday, and rescuers have indefinitely suspended a search for a 60-year-old male ...

On the morning of New Year’s Eve, 2015, three friends strapped on snowshoes and headed out for their final workout of the year on Washington’s Granite Mountain, a steep, 5,623-foot peak that ...

Ian Rogers is due to leave Overlake Hospital today following his rescue from a Snoqualmie Pass avalanche Sunday. The 23-year-old Suffolk, England native called for help with his cell phone after a ...

On others, like Granite Mountain, avalanche-start zones are too difficult to access in the winter and require artillery fire from the M60, with the howitzer serving in relief duty.

“One on Denny Mountain, one on Granite Mountain, ... After eyeing conditions Monday following a weekend of mountain snow, the risk of an avalanche onto I-90 wasn’t quite high enough for ...

"We have three main avalanche areas west of Snoqualmie Pass,” said WSDOT Avalanche Program Supervisor John Stimberis. “One on ...