Stevens Pass, WA - It was a deadly weekend in Washington, where four backcountry travelers were killed in two separate nearby avalanches, including two well known ski industry professionals. The dead in a noon-time slide that struck a party of 13 experienced backcounty skiers near Stevens Pass ski area, 70 miles east of Seattle,...
Pagosa Springs, CO - An off-duty Keystone ski patroller died in an avalanche on Thursday on Colorado's Wolf Creek Pass. Andre Hartlies, 37, originally from Australia, was skiing with two companions on a 40-degree slope in a popular backcountry skiing area near the top of the pass when the slide released. The Mineral County...
Grand Teton National Park, WY - National Park rangers in Wyoming on Monday night rescued a pair of lost snowboarders who had ventured out of bounds from Jackson Hole Mountain Resort (JHMR) unprepared for their ordeal. Joe Tauro, 55, of Brick, and Mike Fasciolli, 36, of Toms River, both in New Jersey, left the...
North Conway, NH - Alpine ski touring, or randonée skiing, is increasingly popular in ski country, as equipment manufacturers produce sturdier, lighter, and more sophisticated ski gear that is equally efficient at free-heel climbs using climbing skins and descents in which the binding converts to hold the boot heel on the ski. The 16th...
Telluride, CO - A 38-year-old Telluride man died on Monday from injuries sustained in an avalanche in the Telluride sidecountry. Nathanael Soules was snowboarding alone on Monday when a slide buried him on U.S. Forest Service land in Fingers section in the Contention path of the Bear Creek drainage. Bear Creek is outside of...
Kimberley (BC), Canada - A day after a snowcat skier died in an avalanche in British Columbia, a skier was swept up in a second avalanche in the Kootenays on Saturday, and remains hospitalized with serious injuries. The unidentified 35-year-old man, from Quick, British Columbia, was skiing with a companion on Saturday afternoon in...
Meadow Creek (BC), Canada - A skier was killed on Friday morning while on an organized cat skiing outing when an avalanche swept down on him on Meadow Mountain, in the Kootenays north of Nelson, British Columbia. "We are deeply saddened to announce that there has been an avalanche fatality on Meadow Mountain," officials...
Kalispell, MT - Following the resumption of search efforts on Thursday, the body of a missing Montana skier was found in the backcountry near Kalispell on Thursday, the Flathead County Sheriff's Office has confirmed. Mark Albee, 42, of Bigfork was skiing with his brother in the Jewel Basin area near Camp Misery east of...
Kalispell, MT - Searchers this morning resumed their efforts to locate a backcountry skier swept away by an avalanche in northwestern Montana. The Flathead County Sheriff's Department, the Nordic Ski Patrol and Flathead County Search and Rescue members all headed to the Jewel Basin area in the Swan Range east of Bigfork near Kalispell...
Salt Lake City, UT - A 24-year-old University of Utah student died Saturday afternoon when an avalanche swept him 2,400 vertical feet down a slope in the Wasatch backcountry. Alecsander Barton, originally from Concord, Mich., was reportedly an experienced backcountry skier and snowboarder. He had just begun his descent of a run called Little...
