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Snow Safety

Hangfire Avalanche Training – 2016 Course Dates

Hangfire Avalanche Training provides Avalanche Safety Training (AST) 1 and AST2 courses to skiers, snowboarders and snowmobilers throughout western Canada. The company's vision has been to develop avalanche tra...

KBYG Know Before You Go

The Utah Avalanche Center and the Colorado Avalanche Information Center have teamed up with Avalanche Canada, Backcountry Access, the American Avalanche Association, the American Institute of Avalanche Research...

Swiss Avalanche: Complete Burial and Rescue

It is important to learn from the mistakes of others as well as yourself. I have uploaded this video to act as a learning tool to demonstrate what ill preparedness looks like in an avalanche rescue situation. A...

Skier Accidental POV – Banff Backcountry: Feb.15

According to the Banff, Kootenay, Yoho avalanche forecast, "the base of the snowpack remains weak due to the presence of basal depth hoar and facets. Avalanches have been occurring on this layer daily: either f...