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All three groups were skiing unsupported slopes and were fortunate that their buried skiers survived.
Read more Three Avalanche Incidents in Duffy Lake Area
This year’s avalanche season is plagued by a deeply buried weak layer across much of western Canada, making it one of the most difficult snowpacks to safely manage in decades.
Read more Avalanche Canada: Deep Persistent Slab Not Going Away
Columbia Valley RCMP now confirm that three skiers were killed and four were injured.
Read more Heli Skiing Avalanche kills three
Avalanche Canada reported that they are deeply saddened to learn that two people were killed in an avalanche accident.
Read more Two Avalanche Deaths outside Kicking Horse boundary
The two skiers accessed the east-facing slope of Potato Peak on snowmobiles and were skiing when they were fully buried by the avalanche.
Read more Chilcotin Avalanche Deaths
Andy Burgess production "The Daily Life of Ski Patrollers" really tells their story.
Read more International Ski Patrol Day
An avalanche at near Mount McCrea, just south of Revelstoke, has claimed the lives of two guests, and a ski guide who was also caught in the slide remains in critical condition.
Read more CMH Heli Skiing Avalanche Tragedy
In Glacier National Park, crevasses remain open, or only thinly bridged, in many areas where they are not typically a major concern by this time of year.
Read more Low snow – High Crevasse consequences
We're almost through January and we're asking, where is the powder?
Read more Where is the Powder?
Unfortunate news has been released that Const. Mathieu Nolet passed away in hospital from his injuries sustained in the avalanche.
Read more Nelson Avalanche Claims Second Victim
The La Traviata avalanche, that happened on January 20th 2003, took the lives of seven individuals: Craig Kelly, Vern Lunsford, Dave Finnerty, Dennis Yates, Kathy (Polucha) Kessler, Naomi Heffler, and Jean-luc Schwendener.
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