A growing number of skiers, weary of high prices and long lift lines at crowded resorts, are turning to the solitude of backcountry slopes. But the avalanche dangers are real, and skiers should go in ...

Claire Murphy was conducting "avalanche mitigation" work on Valentine's Day when she and a colleague were caught in an avalanche. Ski resort officials announced her death Saturday.

Murphy was one of two ski patrollers swept away by an avalanche on Lincoln Mountain in the resort while doing avalanche ...

A ski patroller died a week after an avalanche trapped her and another while doing mitigation work, the resort announced.

A Mammoth Mountain ski patroller who was injured in an avalanche last week has died, according to the resort. On Saturday, ...