A hard-charging Teton Pass skier once told me that avalanche-control ... angle acreage while staff runs control routes and blasts slopes as needed with small hand charges, which have a much ...

VICKI: Caltrans tested its avalanche control equipment on Thursday to prepare ... “We don’t have to go in with hand charges—which was the old-fashioned way of doing it,” Nelson said.

At a typical Western North American resort, avalanche control is conducted by a large team of ski patrollers using a combination of cannons, hand charges, and a number of other tools. To whatever ...

The towers are remote avalanche control systems that can be triggered ... (Another avalanche tactic that originated with Atwater — throwing hand charges into avalanche paths — will continue ...

A ski patroller died in an explosion while taking part in avalanche control duties Tuesday morning ... “Most of the hand charges are relatively safe,” said Lt. Fred Guitron of the Placer ...