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Interesting Facts:
- Avalanches can reach speeds of 250 miles per hour.
- Most avalanches occur between 30 and 45 degrees, on a slope that faces the north, east and northeast directions.
- Mountains that are heavily forested are safer areas, where avalanches happen the least.
- 89% of victims are males between the ages of 20 and 29; they are generally skiers, snowmobilers, or climbers.
- Only a few seconds after an avalanche the snow quickly turns into ice, freezing hard as cement.
- The United States ranks 5th in the world for avalanche danger.
- The deadliest avalanche reported in American history was in February 1910, in Washington's Cascade Mountains, the avalanche swept trains away and killed 100 people.