Had a chance to try out our local Beacon Basin yesterday. This one is on top of Aspen Mountain above the eponymous town in Colorado.

This was not a large avalanche, but could have hurt someone. It’s interesting to see such a slide in Colorado, where our snowpack is usually so crummy that any avalanche steps down to the ground and moves massive amounts of snow.

Every winter, the Colorado snowpack is one of the most avalanche dangerous in North America.

The amount of knowledge we have about snow avalanches has increased immensely over the past several decades. Using this information, experts are constantly reformulating survival techniques and devising improved safety gear. The Avalung came out of knowledge that avalanche victims…

West central Colorado is getting nuked with big winter storm number eight (WS8). While avy danger is high at this time, we do have a solid base in many areas so when things settle and bond we might be looking…

Interesting report from backcountry skiers who were out today in the Elk Mountains of central Colorado. Wintry storm 7 (WS7)dropped up to a foot of fresh, but the snow bonded so poorly in places that it was sluffing and point…