DENVER — Stephen Bass approached Andy Sovick last year with a plan for writing a guide to snowmobile-access skiing around one of the most popular backcountry destinations in Colorado: Buffalo Pass near Steamboat Springs. Bass, a ski patroller at Utah’s …
New technology is reducing Alaska search and rescue operations from days to minutes. The Alaska Department of Public Safety’s aerial search teams are using a new $600,000 camera-and-mapping system with an infrared camera that picks up heat signatures from people …
Officials say this has been the deadliest winter on Minnesota ice in more than five years. The Department of Natural Resources says five people have died after going through the ice in Minnesota this winter. A sixth is missing and …