...activity. Skiers and snowboarders were triggering avalanches inside ski areas in Washington state and in the Sierra Mountains of California. It all started with one skier getting fully buried at Crystal Mountain Ski Area. Over the holiday weekend...

...die just like any living thing. The oldest living tree is the bristlecone pine (4,766 years) in the White Mountains of California, but most other trees (not counting redwoods and sequoias, which can live 1,000-3,000 years) have a...

...Canyonlands National Park in Utah is such a place. So, too are the towering sequoias in the Milk Ranch-Case Mountains of California or the desert of Otero Mesa in southern New Mexico, which stretches from horizon to horizon. Forty years ago...

...at the International Diabetes Center in Minneapolis and working at a youth diabetes camp in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California. She passed her Certification Examination for Diabetes Educators while attending the annual Alaska Area Diabetes...