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

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 ...

After 1951, the SLF stepped up its research into avalanche protection. The findings led to a move away from walls, the usual defence mechanism until then, towards the snow bridges and snow nets that ...

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 ...