avalanche

The body of a man who died last winter in an avalanche on Colchuck Peak eight miles south of Leavenworth has been recovered. The remains of 66-year-old Yun Park of Palisades Park, New Jersey were found on Thursday afternoon by a volunteer with Everett Mountain Rescue who was on a leisure hike...

The body of a woman who died last winter in an avalanche on Colchuck Peak eight miles south of Leavenworth has been recovered. The remains of 60-year-old Jeannie Lee of Bayside, New York were found on Monday afternoon by a Chelan County Mountain Rescue volunteer...

More people have died in Washington due to avalanches than in any other natural event. More than earthquakes, landslides, flooding, severe storm, or wildfire. Three more people lost their lives this week.

According to Chelan County Emergency Management, a group of six hikers were climbing the peak when around 1pm the lead hiker triggered what would be the first of multiple avalanches.

WSP confirmed that Trooper Steve Houle, a 28 year veteran of the WSP is the victim and has been found deceased.

On Tuesday, January 7th Silver Mountain ski resort in Kellog Idaho had not one but three avalanches in a recently opened part of the ski area where over 20 inches of new snow had fallen in two days. 6 people were rescued sadly 2 people died and as of this writing 1 person is still missing.

A major Traffic alert to report this morning Monday February 11th beginning at 10 A.M.

In a horribly ironic twist of fate, the man who served as director of Oregon's Avalanche Center has died while skiing, after being swept down a mountain by an avalanche.

It was a deadly weekend in the cascades for snow enthousiats there were 2 huge avalanches in two diffrent ski area's.  1st a group of expert skiers at Stevens Pass Ski Resort were checking out some runs out of bounds when the avalanche occured...