Keep reading for more information about Colorado's current snowpack and avalanche danger. The avalanche was naturally triggered but serves as a good reminder ... trigger wind slabs and persistent ...

for example a layer of unconsolidated, loose snow topped by a thick, solid slab of ice. Avalanches aren't just a concern for backcountry skiers and snowboarders – in January 2022, two Colorado ...

A round of late-season snowfall has blanketed Colorado’s mountains, creating powder skiing conditions at ski resorts like ...

Such avalanches have a single point of origin, from where they widen as they travel down the slope. Slab Avalanche Loose Snow Avalanches in turn could cause a Slab Avalanche, which are characterized ...

"This avalanche serves as a good reminder ... a very clear example how stability can dramatically deteriorate with intense daytime warming. This increases the probability of triggering loose wet ...

This season the western U.S. is especially prone to one of the worst layers for wet slabs—depth hoar. Doug Chabot is the director of the Gallatin National Forest Avalanche Center based in Bozeman, ...

An hour later you’re wading through chest-deep soft slab up the gentle apron slopes, regular sluffs washing past you. So, do you continue? In the winter hills you need to constantly make informed ...