Two Mammoth Mountain Ski Patrol staff were buried in snow Friday after an avalanche came down on them during their mitigation ...

Two Mammoth Mountain ski patrol staff members were caught in an avalanche on Friday, leaving one in the hospital with serious injuries. According to the ...

It’s the sound of controlled avalanche detonations; an unmistakable signal that ski patrol is at work, long before the first lifts hum to life. On Mont Blanc, as elsewhere in the world ...

To make matters worse, the skier allegedly triggered an avalanche in the closed zone that, "required a response from patrol." Solitude stresses that ducking ropes not only puts the skier in question ...

During avalanche search training, Ski Patrol members may dig caves under the snow and position someone inside holding a toy. Then they cover up the entrance with snow bricks. The dog then has to ...

(Matt Baldwin/Daily Inter Lake) Whitefish Mountain Resort ski patroller Addie Elm skis in the backcountry during the Patrol Fund's avalanche training seminar Jan. 11, 2025. (Matt Baldwin/Daily ...

Utah has been an avalanche dog for nearly two years and is one of several here in Chamonix. Together with Bernard, a 30-year veteran of ski patrol, the pair travels around the Savoie region when ...

At Crystal Mountain, Washington, in 2014, a ski-patrol-triggered avalanche destroyed a chairlift while the resort was closed. Two years earlier, in France, a large, slow-moving avalanche wrecked ...