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The City and Borough of Juneau is warning the avalanche hazard on the Behrends path is expected to peak late Tuesday and into Wednesday morning. The likelihood of large avalanches are expected to ...

The slide occurred on January 10 at Haiyaha Couloir, a steep gully in the park that is popular with backcountry skiers and snowboarders. Filmed from the point of view of one of the snowboarders, the ...

“The Sheriff’s Office expresses our deepest sympathies,” officials said. A Utah man was found dead after being caught in an avalanche Sunday afternoon in Lincoln County, Wyoming, authorities said.

The men were among a group of four skiing in the backcountry near Longs Pass, east of Seattle in the Cascade Mountains. The area received heavy snowfall last week. By Livia Albeck-Ripka Two men were ...

Officials in Washington state announced Saturday that two men were killed last week when an avalanche struck a group of four snowmobilers. The Kittitas County Sheriff’s Office reported that the ...

Two men were killed in an avalanche in central Washington state while backcountry snowmobiling, authorities said on Jan. 10. Four men were recreating in backcountry snow near the Longs Pass trail in ...

Two people were killed and two others rescued after an avalanche struck while they were backcountry snowmobiling on a Washington state mountain, officials said. Paul Markoff, 38, of North Bend, and ...

SEATTLE — Four people traveling in the backcountry were swept up in an avalanche near Longs Pass southwest of Leavenworth, the Northwest Avalanche Center reported Friday. According to officials, the ...

Two backcountry skiers were killed in an avalanche Friday, according to the Kittitas County sheriff’s office. Two others survived. One suffered injuries, the Northwest Avalanche Center reported. The ...

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