This Past Winter Was One of the Busiest Ever for Teton County Search & Rescue, WY, With 64 Rescues There have been more avalanche fatalities this year than in the previous year, according to statistics compiled by the Colorado Avalanche Information Center (CAIC) and the National Avalanche Center. So far this season, there have been 23 fatalities in the U.S. due to avalanches compared to 16 during the 2023-24 season. One area of the country that saw a large number of avalanche […] Industry News Gregg Frantz | July 8, 2025 0 Comments
Man Survives Being Buried In An Avalanche For Over An Hour in Colorado After being buried under snow for over an hour, a man beat the odds of surviving an avalanche near Vail Pass, Colorado. The avalanche occurred around 12:00 p.m. on February 17 on Shrine Mountain, west of Vail Pass. The man was snowmobiling with a friend when the two set off an avalanche that buried one of them. The friend who […] Industry News Gregg Frantz | February 19, 2025 0 Comments
Teton County Search & Rescue, WY, Raises Funds For Year-Round Helicopter Success! After two months of public fundraising, Teton County Search and Rescue (‘TCSAR’), WY, has finally reached its goal for ‘Mission Critical,’ pursuing a year-round helicopter. This achievement enables TCSAR to conduct successful rescue missions in the summer months across the formidable terrain of the Tetons. Previously, TSCAR leased the helicopter from October to May, and in the summer, it was […] Industry News Saj Sheth-Voss | May 31, 2023 0 Comments
Drones to the Rescue? How Drones are Changing the Landscape of High Mountain Rescue Efforts Imagine for a moment that you were this unfortunate snowboarder trapped on the side of a cliff for two hours, frightened, cold, and not understanding what’s going to happen next? Related: Snowboarder trapped on cliff-face at Whistler Blackcomb Now imagine how it might feel to be in that same position (yes as frightening as it was!) but also able to […] Avalanche Ryan Kime | April 26, 2022 1 Comment
Blackbird Mountain Guides Offers Unique AIARE Avalanche Rescue Course on Donner Summit, CA Blackbird Mountain Guides in Truckee, CA, is offering lift-accessed AIARE Avalanche Rescue Courses at Donner Ski Ranch this winter. These courses are unique in the area in that they utilize lift-accessed terrain for recreational avalanche rescue scenarios. Rather than practicing on flat ground, students will use more realistic terrain that will help them understand and optimize their position in the […] Avalanche Mike Bartholow | March 4, 2021 0 Comments
VIDEO: Post-Avalanche Patient Care Brought to you by SCARPA Backcountry Week This is the fifth installment of my highlighting Backcountry Access’ Avalanche Safety videos for SCARPA Backcountry Week. Up to now in these videos, we’ve discussed organizing a companion avalanche rescue in the backcountry, as well as single and multiple-burial rescue with transceivers, probing, and strategic shoveling. In the next video in the series, […] Avalanche Mike Bartholow | February 16, 2021 0 Comments
VIDEO: Organizing A Backcountry Rescue [arve url="https://youtu.be/gywtmukgt8s"] Mike Bartholow | February 12, 2021 Likes Tweets 0 Comments
VIDEO: Avalanche Rescue – Probing and Shoveling 101 Brought to you by SCARPA Backcountry Week This is the third installment of my highlighting Backcountry Access’ Avalanche Safety videos for SCARPA Backcountry Week. In the first three videos, we looked at single and multiple burial avalanche search and rescue techniques with BCA transceivers. In the next two, we will look at probing and shoveling. There have been 16 recreational […] Avalanche Mike Bartholow | February 11, 2021 0 Comments
Barking Dogs Save Their Owners’ Lives after Avalanche Burial in Switzerland Winter Hiking In Switzerland. | Photo Via Jungfrau Region Tourismus AG On Saturday, January 30th at 3:00 PM, two people were buried in an avalanche while hiking in Avers Valley. Located in southwestern Switzerland, Avers valley offers many winter sports activities, including hiking, ski touring, and resort skiing. The pair were out hiking on the well-prepared winter hiking trails when […] Avalanche Miles Wong | February 10, 2021 0 Comments
Man Survives 2 hours and 40 minutes Under Avalanche in Val d’Isere, France An avalanche hit a family of four snowshoeing on the Chemins des Coves track of Val d’Isere, France. The family of four was not wearing transceivers on a level 4 of 5 danger day when a 200m long by 100m wide avalanche hit them. The mother and two teenagers were hit but not buried while the father was buried under […] Avalanche Dominic Gawel | January 29, 2021 0 Comments
Free Avalanche Beacon Training Park Near Vail, CO White River National Forest and the Colorado Avalanche Information Center (CAIC) just installed a new beacon training park just off of the I-70 near Vail, CO. The new training park gives backcountry users a free and convenient location to practice avalanche rescue. Users need to provide their own avalanche rescue equipment: a beacon, shovel, and probe. The training park is […] Avalanche Dominic Gawel | December 26, 2020 1 Comment
Search and Rescue During a Global Pandemic The reservation system has been set in stone at many major resorts across the United States. Both on the popular Epic Pass as well as the Ikon Pass, this is the reality. The latter pass only requires reservations at a handful of mountains such as Aspen Highlands, Crystal Mountain, and Big Sky. Due to the limited capacity, backcountry skiers and […] Backcountry Mitchell Milbauer | November 25, 2020 1 Comment
New Avalanche Rescue Drone in the Works PowderBee Bluebird Mountain has created a working prototype called the PowderBee, which is an avalanche rescue drone. The drone has been made to fit inside your pack and is used alongside typical avalanche rescue procedures and equipment. When the PowderBee is needed, simply extend the antenna, point towards the avalanche zone and push one button and the drone is off searching. […] Gear Dan Scheibelein | February 25, 2020 0 Comments
UK Ski Resort Welcomes Country’s First Avalanche Dog [arve url="https://youtu.be/Iho9xhpb9iU"] Jason Ringenberg | January 3, 2019 117 Likes 0 Tweets 0 Comments
Avalanche Rescue Dog Saves Life of Austrian Skier A 19 year-old Austrian skier owes his life to an avalanche rescue dog, who located him in only a few minutes. The skier was completely buried in the slide, which occurred within sight of a chairlift at Westendorf, in Tyrol. The man was powder skiing with four friends on Sunday when they triggered the slide. Skiers on a chairlift above called for […] Avalanche Sergei Poljak | January 17, 2016 0 Comments
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