A team of geologists and mineral physicists at Harvard University, the University of California, Argonne National Laboratory ...

Crews with the Colorado Avalanche Information Center (CAIC) are showing some of the major dangers behind wind-drifted snow.

The Colorado Avalanche Information Center (CAIC) says areas above the treeline in the Pikes Peak region have considerable ...

On Wednesday morning, a massive avalanche ripped down the southwest face of Ajax Peak, the landmark mountain visible from most of downtown Telluride. Tap or click the video below to watch. Keep ...

Conditions have been exacerbated by strong Foehn and southwest winds, creating fragile snow slabs on multiple slope aspects, particularly in wind-loaded areas. The Meteo France avalanche bulletin for ...

A skier remotely triggered an avalanche in Teacup Bowl on January 2, 2025. The skier was able to outrun the slide and no one ...

The CAIC reports that the avalanche was a Persistent Slab. This type of avalanche includes various layers, and is defined as the "release of a cohesive layer of snow (a slab), when the bond to an ...

There were also wind-drifted slabs, where the snow can be densely packed down. The avalanche broke to the ground in several places. “This is the kind of persistent-slab avalanche you can trigger in ...

"This slide had enough force for the snowboarder to snap his splitboard on a small tree," the Colorado Avalanche Information Center said.

You can probably discern based on the title that I'm going to tell you about the dumbest thing I've ever done on skis, and I'm prefacing it with all this because for better or worse, it's not very ...