Last year, the all-volunteer, nonprofit Routt County Search and Rescue team conducted 53 missions in the field that required ...

Kathryn McKee and her hiking partner huddled in the darkness, waiting for a search team to make its way through subzero ...

It seemed like a beautiful day last Spring when Chris Price and a few friends decided to skin up and ski down a mountain near ...

On Jan. 7, a backcountry skier was killed near Red Mountain Pass, marking Colorado’s first death of the 2024-2025 winter avalanche season. Although the conditions were rated as moderate near the ...

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The woman located her husband’s body using a transceiver and avalanche probe, digging his remains out of the debris with the help of other backcountry skiers and members of Ouray Mountain Rescue Team.

Donald Moden Jr., a 57-year-old veteran skier who was once a member of the Ouray Mountain Rescue Team, was killed on Jan. 7 in an area off Red Mountain Pass known as “Bollywood,” the Ouray ...

Former Ouray Mountain Rescue Team member Don Moden Jr. was identified as the man who died in an avalanche on the northwest flank of Red Mountain No. 3. The Ouray Mountain Rescue Team said in a ...

She spotted an avalanche on the slope, initiated a transceiver search and immediately acquired a signal, the report said. She pinpointed him with her avalanche probe and yelled for help as she started ...

A Colorado woman learned her husband was buried by an avalanche after he never checked in as planned, and she began searching for him under the snow. Donald Moden Jr., a 57-year-old veteran skier ...

Ouray Mountain Rescue Team on Facebook A woman’s husband missed a scheduled check-in with her while skiing alone in Colorado’s backcountry, so she set out to find him herself, officials said.