After the avalanche winter of 1950/51, SLF researchers developed a system for mapping areas at risk from avalanches. The ...

The Colorado Avalanche Information Center has resumed daily avalanche forecasts for mountain ranges statewide. The forecasts help backcountry users – including skiers, snowboarders, snowmobilers and ...

Skiers have also died from avalanche-related accidents in the Swiss and French Alps over the past week. By Yan Zhuang Eight skiers died in three separate avalanches across the Austrian Alps on ...

Colorado’s backcountry skiing season is only just getting started, but humans are already triggering avalanches ahead of available daily forecasts. Colorado Avalanche Information Center Director Ethan ...