The Sacramento Bee spoke to avalanche experts, skiers and guides about what went wrong near Castle Peak, and what skiers can learn.

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NORTH IDAHO — Avalanche danger has risen to considerable across all zones Monday, Feb. 16, according to the Friends of the Idaho Panhandle Avalanche Center. Snowpack tests conducted Sunday in the ...

Eight skiers have died and one is presumed dead following an avalanche in the Sierra Nevada mountain range in California on Feb. 17. Six members of the group survived and were rescued. The 15-member ...

Under clear blue skies Friday, the first day in many without snowfall, people came for a look at the Castle Peak Trailhead. Some pulled over for a few seconds, skis and snowboards strapped to their ...

Eight backcountry skiers were confirmed killed and a ninth was presumed to have perished when their tour group was overtaken by a football-field-sized avalanche in California’s Sierra Nevada mountains ...

Feb. 18—Eight of the nine people reported missing after a massive avalanche roughly the size of a football field struck a guided backcountry ski group near Lake Tahoe were confirmed dead Wednesday, ...

Nine skiers were killed, California authorities said, after heavy snow pummeled the region. By Livia Albeck-Ripka Alexandra E. Petri and Rylee Kirk Nine skiers were killed after they were overcome by ...