Colorado Avalanches (Weather)

Colorado sports fans are excited because both Denver Nuggets and Colorado Avalanche games will be available to everybody once again.

It's not often that you hear about an avalanche closing down a major highway in spring, but it does happen, especially when conditions are prime.

With all the recent talk about the extreme snow we've had in Colorado this year, we often forget to talk about one of the more dangerous hazards of mountain snow: the avalanche.

A deadly weekend avalanche in Colorado tragically claimed the life of two snowmobilers.

Backcountry avalanche conditions remain dangerous in Colorado, and we received a stark reminder over the weekend as a man and two dogs were tragically killed in a western Colorado avalanche.

Most of the deadliest avalanches in Colorado history date back to the state's gold mining era.