By Doug Chabot EBS CONTRIBUTOR Clicking into our skis or jumping on our sleds in search of powder is a universal mission at winter trailheads throughout...
By Doug Chabot GALLATIN NATIONAL FOREST AVALANCHE CENTER We just ended our 32nd year of operation. It was a low snow year with snowpack totals 70-80 percent...
By Doug Chabot GNFAC Director I hear the wildest things. People share their tales of near-death on social media. During classes students explain their adventurous avalanche...
By Jessianne Wright EBS Contributor BOZEMAN – All over the world, snow researchers and snow scientists dig holes in the snow. They look at the snow...
Recovery brings into focus efforts of local search and rescue By Tyler Allen EBS Managing Editor BIG SKY – The news of the country’s first avalanche fatality...
By Joseph T. O’Connor EBS Managing Editor BIG SKY – A Yellowstone Club ski patroller was recently killed in a Jan. 19 avalanche outside the ski...
Annual fundraiser for avalanche center Oct. 23 By Tyler Allen EBS Senior Editor BOZEMAN – Whether or not early snows drape the region’s high peaks in...
Powder Blast raises money for avalanche center By Tyler Allen Explore Big Sky Senior Editor BOZEMAN – Since its founding in 1992, the Friends of the...
Five Montana fatalities since Jan. 1 By Tyler Allen Explore Big Sky Associate Editor An 18-year-old man from Lake Lillian, Minn. died in an avalanche Tuesday...
Lessons learned from Beehive Basin incident By Emily Wolfe Explore Big Sky Managing Editor Walk around in the mountains in southwest Montana right now, and you’ll...
