ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- A teenager has died after triggering an avalanche, the fourth person killed in snow slides in Alaska ...

The avalanche crown ... until the area cools down. Crystal Mountain ski patrollers will continue to assess the snowpack and conditions and re-open terrain when possible to do so safely, according to ...

Alaska State Troopers said the body of 16-year-old Tucker Challan of Soldotna was recovered from the avalanche Sunday by the Alaska Mountain ... no slope for the snow to come down.

The weak layer can be broken on a flat track, but that wouldn’t cause an avalanche because there is no slope for the snow to come down. “When we have avalanche conditions like this ...