Moab • It happens almost every time Tyler Jameson leads a river rafting trip. A man among the passengers will ask her something like, “Do you need a break? I’ll row the boat for you.” Early in her ...

That’s what skiers in the western U.S. have been saying, thanks to record snowfall throughout the Sierra Nevada and much of the Rockies. As of mid-April, California’s statewide snowpack is 237 percent ...