Utah Avy Center: Wednesday’s Avalanche Death Victim Worked for Utah Avy Center 2014-17 The Utah Avalanche Center is currently mourning the death of Trace Carrillo – the avalanche victim from Teton Pass, WY on Wednesday, April 1st, 2020. UPDATE: Snowboarder Who Died in Teton Pass Avalanche Named as 28-Year-Old Wyoming Resident ” Trace was a member of the UAC family having worked with us from 2014-2017 in a variety of roles. ” – […] Avalanche AvyBrains | April 5, 2020 0 Comments
Utah Avalanche Center Director Speaks on Backcountry Use During the COVID-19 Crisis [arve url="https://youtu.be/3Ii3mj_QtUA"] Martin Kuprianowicz | April 1, 2020 Likes Tweets 0 Comments
Utah Avalanche Center To Continue Publishing Daily Avalanche Forecasting During COVID-19 Crisis With every resort in Utah now closed for the 2019-20 winter season, we must turn to the backcountry. However, with more people now entering into the backcountry comes much more added risk. That’s why the Utah Avalanche Center has announced that they will continue making avalanche forecasts for next few weeks while Utah ski areas remain closed. A big thank […] Backcountry AvyBrains | March 18, 2020 0 Comments
The Utah Avalanche Center Explains Why North-Facing Slopes Keep Better Snow Ever wonder how the snow on high elevation north facing slopes remains dry powder during such warm weather? The Utah Avalanche Center explained the science behind this in an Instagram post yesterday, Feb. 23: (1) The sun either doesn’t hit the snow it or the sun hits the snow at such a shallow angle that most of the solar radiation is […] Brains SnowBrains | February 24, 2020 0 Comments
Skier Triggered Avalanche Injures Skier In 600-Foot Ride in Utah on Saturday Over the weekend a skier-triggered avalanche caught and carried a person. While only 30 feet wide, the slide ran 600 feet!! Through trees and all. The avalanche occurred on Dec. 8th, 2018. The caught skier suffered a facial laceration that required a trip to the ER and badly bruised hip, back, and shoulder. BUT SURVIVED!! With a broken ski, the group […] Avalanche John Solder | December 11, 2018 0 Comments
‘Utah Avalanche Center’ and ‘Know Before You Go’ Offer FREE Online Avalanche Course [arve url="https://youtu.be/Y9QQGFJHKxY"] AvyBrains | October 8, 2018 137 Likes 0 Tweets 0 Comments
How the North American Avalanche Danger Scale Works: Utah Avalanche Center and the US Forest Service bring you the North American Public Avalanche Danger Scale. You must remember four important points about this scale: 1) The scale is not linear. Your risk increases about two fold for each rising level on the danger scale. In other words, you take on twice as much risk at Moderate as Low and you take on four times more risk going from Low to Considerable. And so on. The risk numbers […] Avalanche ameliatraynor | October 2, 2018 2 Comments
VIDEO: To Hell In A Heartbeat | The Story Of A Miraculous Avalanche Survival [arve url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Py_zhaw9ce4"] AvyBrains | December 1, 2017 94 Likes 1 Tweet 0 Comments
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