The SBX backpack system from Safeback is designed to pull and deliver oxygen from snow if the wearer is buried by an ...

In terms of area, forest is the most important means of avalanche protection. It is also the most cost-effective and is naturally renewable. This insight hit home after the winter of 1951, when over 1 ...

Residents have been warned about possible avalanches in the northern parts of Japan following two weeks of snowfall ...

Were managers pushing too hard to open? Are young patrollers afraid to speak up? With two dead in deliberately triggered ...

Avalanche danger is declining across Colorado amid a dry spell and a season with a record-low snowpack, but recent avalanche ...

The non-profit "Friends of Colorado Avalanche Information Center" (Friends of CAIC) group is offering monthly prizes this ...

Japan has warned northern regions of avalanche after a sudden temperature rise followed two weeks of extreme snowfall that ...

Officials confirmed on Jan. 26, that the road later reopened after the snowfall was cleared by the Pennsylvania Department of ...

Backcountry ski touring means traveling on much more gradual slopes on trails that serve as easy hikes in the summer.