“Slides may fail as wet loose, or as wet slabs. Regardless, avalanches will entrain wet, heavy snow as they move down the mountain. Being caught in a large wet avalanche today will be difficult ...

The snow burst through the trees with no warning but a last-second whoosh of sound, a two-story wall of white and Chris Rudolph’s piercing cry: “Avalanche! Elyse!” The very thing the 16 ...

Add gravity and inconsistent snowpack, and we can end up with an immense downward force of loose rocks and snow — an avalanche. Sometimes even the smallest thing can create a massive snow slide, which ...

you can trigger loose avalanches. Move off steep slopes once the snow surface becomes sticky, before it becomes slushy,” the forecast reads. For Thursday, the avalanche danger is down at moderate, or ...

Avalanche conditions are still a concern even ... wind-drifted slabs the the main concern is the loose snow or sluff ...

Broadly speaking, however, a snow avalanche involves the fall of either loose snow or a slab. Loose snow avalanche An avalanche triggered by loose snow usually starts at a point or a small area ...

Dangerous avalanche conditions remain in in effect ... which means humans may trigger avalanches. Officials said loose snow ...