Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Grand County Search and Rescue A splitboarder who triggered an avalanche and then got stranded is very lucky, according to the ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. The search for a Minnesota man trapped by a Feb. 22 avalanche in Idaho was complicated by his ...

At least eight backcountry skiers are dead after a group of 15 were swept away by an avalanche Tuesday near Castle Peak in the Lake Tahoe area, The Sacramento Bee reported. Six were rescued and the ...