This is a brilliant story by the New York Times detailing an avalanche that occurred in Washington state that took three lives. It is an extremely detailed report on the snow conditions, terrain, and decisions made by the skiers that were conducive to the avalanche.

This website is a tremendous source of comprehensive snow science information, discussing the characteristics of snow, how it forms, the weather and climate that snow is involved in, and how it affects humans and animals. This is a very informative site.

This website provides a great description of skiing in Tuckerman Ravine. There is also a forum on the site where consistent reports on conditions in the bowl are posted. This is a very useful site for anyone traveling to Tuckerman Ravine, the East's most popular and dangerous area for backcountry skiing.

Powder Magazine has an entire part of their website devoted to avalanche education. On this page you can find updates of major avalanche events and weekly posts about various avalanche hazards and elements of backcountry etiquette.

Adventureskier.com provides information on backcountry conditions in the Northeast. On the site are useful weather and avalanche links as well as blog posts that all can be used to keep skiers updated on conditions in the Northeast throughout the winter.

This website is a hub for accessing avalanche forecasting websites for many regions throughout the U.S. On each region's site that can be accessed from the page are detailed assessments of avalanche conditions. On avalanche.org, there is an easy to follow tutorial on avalanche safety and protocol that is very useful and informative.

This website provides a plethora of information about how to perceive and avoid avalanche conditions and how to handle a situation when an avalanche does occur. It has extremely detailed instructions on how to test for avalanches and make smart decisions in the backcountry.

This website gives extremely detailed and secific analysis of snow conditions in the mountains of Northern Utah, but is also useful for anyone trying to learn about what conditions are ripe for avalanches. Every day the site gives a description of each possible type of avalanche, the likelihood of it happening and where, what will cause it, and the potential severity of the slide. The website also gives a detailed analysis of all previous avalanches, explaining why it happened and the effect that it had.

This website provides a very useful analysis of avalanche conditions in Tuckerman's Ravine on Mount Washington.