CDOT studies estimate a $1.6 million hit to the Colorado economy for every hour that I-70 must be closed for avalanche ...

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 ...

For decades, Utah avalanche mitigation teams used howitzer cannons to blast avalanches off the mountains. But when the military encouraged them to stop firing cannons at the mountains, the ...

The boom whoosh is a remote avalanche control system developed in ... being used as the military recalls the previously used howitzer. The boom of Little Cottonwood Canyon's howitzers will be ...

After decades of using military artillery to manage avalanche risk in Little Cottonwood Canyon, local ski areas are now turning to new remote control devices.