View post: UDOT Shares Plan To Handle Ski Traffic in Big Cottonwood Canyon One skier in Colorado is “extremely lucky” after emerging unscathed from a large backcountry avalanche on Berthoud Pass on ...

Sierra crews were planning to trigger a controlled avalanche Friday in the Lake Tahoe backcountry where nine people lost their lives in Tuesday’s deadly avalanche near Castle Peak, Nevada County ...

Castle Peak, the area where a group of backcountry skiers were swept up in an avalanche, happened not far from where a snowmobiler died in a similar slide at the start of the year, and were close to ...

Nine people died in the catastrophic Castle Peak avalanche near Lake Tahoe, and a detailed new account from two survivors is shedding light on how the tragedy unfolded - and how quickly it overwhelmed ...

Avalanche danger remains elevated across parts of Colorado's northern mountains on Thursday, with forecasters warning that large, potentially deadly slides are still possible. The Colorado Avalanche ...

What began as a three-day backcountry ski trip to remote huts near Donner Pass ended in catastrophe Tuesday when a powerful avalanche swept through the group, killing eight people and leaving one ...