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With snow, comes avalanches! Two specialists join Idaho Matters to give us some do's and don'ts during ski season.
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A new study shows wildfires are burning more high-elevation areas, and that’s impacting the snowpack across the West.
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Airborne Snow Observatories flies planes over watersheds and beams masses of laser pulses each second to the snowpack below to create elevation maps. The maps help calculate snow depth and the water supply forecast across the West.
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If it doesn’t snow again in Denver soon, this will be the city's shortest snow season on record. And Denver's dearth of snow reflects a more consequential climate trend – the Mountain West's shortening season for accumulating mountain snowpack.
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Bogus Basin announced it will re-open for one more day of winter recreation this Saturday, April 16 with 20" of new snow on the ground so far and more expected.
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If you’re watching the Olympics, you’ve likely seen big brown mountains covered in veins of artificial snow trails. That more compact manufactured snow has pros and cons: racers like it’s consistency and how fast they go. But if you crash, you might get hurt worse. It will likely continue to be used, as researchers look for a way to scale up making fluffier, more natural snow for the future.
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The Sawtooth Avalanche Center based in Sun Valley begins its daily backcountry forecasts today.
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New research published in the journal Nature Climate Change finds that snow is melting earlier – often in the winter. That’s a bad sign for the Mountain…
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A recent snowstorm that blew through the Mountain West was a welcome sight for states facing extreme drought. But across the southern half of the region,…
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It was a dry start to the year for some mountain ranges in the region, but recent storms brought most Mountain West snowpack levels back to normal. Aside…