As heavy snowfall began to coat Turnagain Pass last week, notifications started lighting up Tim Glassett's cellphone around 10 p.m. Instead of text messages, each ping warned of avalanche activity ...
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Inside the high-tech race to prevent avalanches — and why the window to survive one is so brutally narrow
“If the fatality rate had held constant, we would be talking about hundreds of people dying every year,” says Dallas Glass, an avalanche forecaster for the Northwest Avalanche Center with two decades ...
LAKE TAHOE, Calif./Nev. – Backcountry travel allows people to get out into the wilderness and enjoy the beauty—but it comes with its own dangers, especially while travelling in avalanche terrain. “We ...
An avalanche is a rapid flow of snow down a hill or mountainside, according to the National Weather Service. Avalanches can reach speeds of up to 100 mph and vary in destructive potential, ranging ...
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