After going nearly an entire month without any precipitation, rain and snow returns to Northern California Tuesday and lasts ...

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Panic! in Detroit is one of the most famous trad routes at Donner Summit. The climb is short but intense, combining powerful crack moves with a demanding crux sequence that tests both strength and ...

This year marks two decades since the world was treated to the reveal of a film thought long lost and never likely to see the light of day – 2006’s Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut, the original ...

New details are coming out about last week's avalanche near Lake Tahoe, which took the lives of nine backcountry travelers. Last Tuesday, February 17, fifteen backcountry skiers were returning to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Sierra’s heavy snow is creating dangerous conditions but also boosting business for mountain resorts, with fresh powder ...

If the party had waited out the storm in their cabins, one of the skiers said, the outcome might have been different. By Kurt Streeter On Sunday morning, two parties moved through the mountains above ...

The UC Berkeley Central Sierra Snow Lab reported Friday that 111 inches of snow fell in just five days this week, a near record even for the extremely snowy location near Donner Summit. In an update ...

The group of 15 people was on a three-day backcountry ski trip to Frog Lake huts near Castle Peak, a 9,110-foot mountain with rugged terrain near Lake Tahoe, north of Donner Summit. The skiers had ...

TRUCKEE, Calif. (AP) — Crews found the bodies of eight backcountry skiers near California's Lake Tahoe and were searching for one more after they were caught in an avalanche, the nation's deadliest in ...

Some of the people killed in Tuesday’s deadly avalanche near Castle Peak were mothers of children in Sugar Bowl’s competitive ski program, according to sources close to the victims, sending shock ...