Sandy, UT – The 8th annual Utah Snow & Avalanche Workshop (USAW) is set for October 31 at the Southtowne Expo Center in Sandy, where Utah’s avalanche community will team up with snow professionals from around the west to share avalanche knowledge and history. This professional development seminar taps into the vast amount of avalanche … Continue reading Utah Snow and Avalanche Workshop Shares Knowledge and History
Wanaka, New Zealand – A 22-year-old Colorado man skiing in the backcountry near Treble Cone ski area, on New Zealand’s South Island, slipped and fell 500 meters to his death on Monday in icy conditions. The victim, who has been identified as Jeffrey Charles Atkinson, was ski touring with a companion behind Treble Cone’s summit when he … Continue reading Colorado Skier Dies in New Zealand Backcountry Fall
Annecy, France – Be searchable! That is the message to all visitors at the French film festival High Five, set for today through Sunday in Annecy. Each screening begins with a short film from RECCO where the French snowboard legend Xavier De Le Rue and Austrian freeskier and film producer Sandra Lahnsteiner show what they bring to be … Continue reading Avalanche Awareness Highlighted at High Five Film Festival
Italy – Italian authorities have identified the body of a Canadian skier who went missing 35 years ago. An unusually warm summer in the Italian Alps caused glacial melt that revealed the body of Gregory Barnes in a crevasse. According to the a report published by the CBC, Barnes, then 24, was ski touring from a … Continue reading Authorities Find Body of Skier Missing for 35 Years
Waitsfield, VT – Vermont’s Sugarbush and Mad River Glen will be co-hosting the Mad River Valley Ski Mountaineering Race this Sunday. The race starts at the base of Mad River Glen with participants climbing the mountain via the Lower Antelope and Upper Antelope trails before turning onto the Long Trail. The Long Trail traverses across the … Continue reading Sugarbush and Mad River Glen to Co-host Ski Mountaineering Race
Nagano, Japan – This past weekend was deadly in the Japanese Alps, with four skiers dying in two separate avalanches after more than a meter of new snow was reported in some areas accompanied by strong winds. Two Argentinean men, ages 50 and 54, died when they were swept away by a 30 meter-wide, 200 meter-long … Continue reading Avalanches Kill 4 in Japan Over the Weekend, Leave 3 More Missing
Silverton, CO – A skier descending Kendall Mountain, southwest of the tiny San Juan Mountains town of Silverton, Colo., died in an avalanche on Tuesday. Olivia Buchanan, 23, of Durango, Colo., was among a group of backcountry skiers descending the Rabbit Ears (Arcade) avalanche path at 11,000 feet on the forested northwest aspect of Kendall Mountain … Continue reading Skier Dies in Avalanche Near Silverton
