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Don’t Miss Backcountry Safety Awareness Week, December 13-18th, Presented By Take Care Tahoe

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Brought to you by The Tahoe Fund Whether you’re a backcountry rookie or professional ski mountaineer, keeping your skills sharp is a life-long process. For the second year running, Take Care Tahoe is hosting Backcountry Safety Awareness Week, December 13-18th. It’s a mix of online programming and in-person events to promote backcountry safety and education, and best of all, it’s […]
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The Importance of Tracking Early Season Weak Layers in the Snowpack… How Long do They Persist?

This video and text was originally published on the Utah Avalanche Center website This is a presentation from Utah Avalanche Center director Mark Staples on tracking early season snow and how it may form persistent weak layers as well as how those layers heal. It’s October and it’s snowing in the mountains. Early season snow is exciting, but it can […]
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[VIDEO] Utah Avalanche Center Conditions Update: Good Snowpack So Far in Wasatch, Keep an Eye on Incoming Atmospheric River

  View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Utah Avalanche Center (@utavy) The snowpack in Utah’s Wasatch Mountains is off to a remarkably good start this year. That’s surprising for October because often early-season snowfall can create weak layers hidden deep within the snowpack which can cause devastating avalanches later in the winter. That is unless it […]
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Utah Avalanche Center to Host 28th Annual Backcountry Benefit on September 9 in Salt Lake City, UT

  View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Utah Avalanche Center (@utavy) The Utah Avalanche Center’s biggest fundraiser of the year is back. The 28th Annual Backcountry Benefit will be held on Thursday, September 9th from 6-10 PM in the Black Diamond parking lot in Salt Lake City (2084 East 3900 South). The Utah Avalanche Center wrote […]
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Bruce Tremper, Former Utah Avalanche Center Director, to Be Inducted Into the Intermountain Ski Hall of Fame

Bruce Tremper, Utah avalanche center,

In a social media post over the weekend, the Utah Avalanche Center announced that their former director, Bruce Tremper, is to be “inducted into the Intermountain Ski Hall of Fame in August at the Olympic Winter Sports Center in Park City for creative contributions to the avalanche world.” Bruce Tremper, former UAC Director for 29 years, will be inducted into […]
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Close Calls With Avalanches and the Ensuing Social Media Comment Superstorm

The 2020-2021 avalanche season has been significant on multiple levels. Most notably, it has had a historic death toll of 36 people in the United States as of March 31. Avalanche incidents have become popular in the mainstream media, and survivors face a dilemma in sharing their incidents. Reporting observations, accidents, and incidents are primary ways avalanche professionals advance the […]
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Utah Avalanche Danger Downgraded – But Not Completely Safe

Pfeifferhorn Peak in the Wasatch

After weeks of high-to-extreme avalanche danger in the Wasatch Mountains near Salt Lake City, UT, avalanche forecasters have declared avalanche danger to finally be in the “Low” and “Moderate” category. A tricky layered snowpack persisted throughout the winter in the Wasatch, challenging even the most experienced avalanche experts in the region and leading to six deaths in the Utah mountains […]
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