avalanche

On Saturday, Gallatin County Sheriff’s Search and Rescue was dispatched to the area of Saddle Peak for an avalanche.

Avalanche Information from the Gallatin National Forest Avalanche Center

Bozeman folks have the best of both worlds: easy access to the outdoors AND easy access to some of the best avalanche education tools in the country. Our Gallatin National Forest Avalanche Center exists to keep us safe and the amount of education they supply is amazing.

Be especially careful in the Lionhead area if you're heading into the back country today or tomorrow. An Avalanche Warning has been issued.

Madison and Gallatin counties are under a Winter Storm Watch for Sunday which is expected to bring several inches of snow to the Bozeman and Ennis areas, with more expected in the mountains.

Know The Snow Before You Go. Be safe in our back country with the latest avalanche information from the Gallatin National Forest Avalanche Center.

Curious about the back country snow conditions near Big Sky? The guys from the Gallatin National Forest Avalanche Center headed up to Beehive Basin to show us all that "it could be worse".

A skier was killed in an early season avalanche on Imp Peak in the southern Madison Range on Saturday.

An Avalanche Warning is in effect for several areas of Southwest Montana starting this afternoon.

Enough snow fell on Sunday night over the mountains of southwest Montana for the Gallatin National Forest Avalanche Center to issue an Avalanch Warning for Gallatin County on Monday.

The National Avalanche Foundation has set up an education fund in memory of Darren Johnson, the Yellowstone Club ski patroller killed in an avalanche on January 19, 2016. The purpose of this memorial fund is to financially help ski patrollers attend the biennial National Avalanche School. You can check out the details and make a donation here:

In January alone, there have already been 11 avalanche fatalities across the West.