There are different models that use varying techniques: Gazex, which Snowbasin has been using since 1999, shoots hot ...

Washington transportation officials will no longer rely on a collection of artillery to shoot loose snow on Snoqualmie Pass to safely trigger controlled avalanches above Interstate 90.

Three people escape overturned vehicle with minor injuries after I-15 rollover crash Three people were able to extricate themselves from a vehicle after a rollover crash on Interstate 15 in Box Elder ...

Avalanches have forever posed risks to ski resorts, mountain highways, and towns. If left unmitigated, they often result in damage, injury, and even loss of life. The longer snow builds up, loading a ...

JACKSON HOLE, Wyo. — Teton Pass will be closed from 9 to 11 a.m. Thursday while the Wyoming Department of Transportation tests a new avalanche gun. WYDOT recently leased an M101 howitzer from the U.S.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Colorado transportation officials plan to nearly double the number of remotely controlled avalanche blasters installed on mountain ridges above highways, a ...

One of the primary risks for crew members is that they have to snowmobile through four avalanche-prone areas before they get to the howitzer, a weapon originally designed to shoot tanks. The gun and ...

Those are the only sounds that fill the thin, crisp winter air as a 105 mm semi-fixed howitzer round is fired into a mountain snowfield as part of the Army's Avalanche Control Program. In 2016 that ...

CDOT and the Colorado Avalanche Information Center operate 54 remote-controlled avalanche systems Remote-controlled avalanche mitigation in Colorado began in 2015 on Stanley Mountain above U.S. 40 on ...

ALTA — Alta Ski Resort is using new technology to help navigate avalanche mitigation. A new video by Ski Utah features the BW-Exploder, or boom whoosh among other new tech. The boom whoosh is a remote ...

Another avalanche was reported at a Lake Tahoe ski resort just one day after the US’ first deadly slide of the season. Authorities at Palisades Tahoe, formerly Squaw Valley, received reports around 12 ...