Whether you’re a fan of hiking, skiing, snowboarding, or snowshoeing, it’s essential to know how to predict an avalanche. 

Tired of long lift lines, crowded trails, and mediocre powder conditions? Perhaps heli-skiing is for you. Heli-skiing is an extreme sport that involves skiing or snowboarding in remote, backcountry areas accessed by helicopter.   If you’ve never been heli-skiing, here’s what to expect. First, you journey in a small helicopter with room for around six people. [...]

There’s good news if you’re a winter hiking or skiing fan. The colder temperatures are coming. Here are a few early signs.

The National Park Service is hiring high-altitude park rangers to patrol the highest peak in North America.

If you’re a fan of skiing, you don’t have to let the summer months bring you down. Some ski resorts are offering summer skiing.

You can head to California to hit the slopes. Mammoth Mountain is extending its ski season through Sunday, August 6.

In a harrowing video captured in Washington last week, a skier narrowly a snowboarder’s life after the man fell head-first into a tree well. The snowboarder was buried upside-down in deep snow and slowly suffocating when the skier, Francis Zuber, arrived at the scene. At the time, Zuber was cashing in on a recent powder [...]

As temperatures get warmer around the country, young skiers and boarders dread closing day at their local ski resort. Months of dry-land training, weight lifting and seeing the skis or board collect dust can bring the summer blues for powder hounds of any age.  Thankfully around the U.S. and Canada, summer-on-snow ski camps offer young [...]

When pro skier Owen Leeper strapped on a helmet cam near Jackson, Wyoming, last month, he expected to catch some sick footage of himself skiing a steep couloir. He didn’t expect to capture one of the most harrowing scenes of his skiing career.  When Leeper approached the couloir on Feb. 11, he was feeling confident. [...]

Just last week, two backcountry tourers narrowly escaped an avalanche on Mt. Washington. A few days later, a 46-year-old skier was killed by an avalanche in Deschutes County, Oregon. His death brought this season’s avalanche fatality count to 14, shocking the local community and leaving many to wonder: Are deadly avalanches are getting more frequent? [...]