Highway 97 between Summerland and Peachland in British Columbia, Canada is closed in both directions due to a rockslide, with no timeline for reopening and the only approved detour being via highways 97C, 5A, 3, and 33.

Officials evacuate nearby homes, caution residents in high-slope areas.

Rockfall buries access road but stops just in front of hamlet, which had been evacuated in anticipation.

The slide occurred at a time when forecasters in the region are cautioning backcountry skiers and snowboarders about the potential for warming weather to increase avalanche risk.

The slides come near the end of an avalanche season experts say is notable both for its heightened danger and lack of deaths.

Traffic in Whitehorse will be difficult for anyone looking to get in and out of the city for the Easter long week after a landslide on the escarpment early Saturday morning forced a section of Robert Service Way to be closed until further notice.

An avalanche Tromsø hit a residential house and a barn, killing over 100 goats on the farm.

Alf Åge Teigmo heard a huge crash: "First came a river, then forest and large boulders.

The reason for the uptick in human-triggered avalanches this winter: persistent weak layers in the snowpack.