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Canadian Avalanche Centre
www.avalanche.ca
The Canadian Avalanche Centre (CAC) is Canada's national public avalanche safety organization. Based in Revelstoke, BC, the CAC provides public avalanche bulletins three times a week throughout the winter, and daily during the Christmas and Easter holiday periods. Our team of forecasters uses an extensive information network to track snowpack stability and predict the avalanche hazard for the mountainous areas of Western Canada. Our website also has a complete list of recreational avalanche course providers, information on professional-level training, and an exciting new online course that teaches avalanche rescue techniques. If you're planning on enjoying the Canadian backcountry this winter, make www.avalanche.ca your first stop.
American Avalanche Institute
Jackson, Wyoming
307.733-3315, avalanchecourse.com
Serves as a provider of extensive avalanche courses and workshops. Holds classes in Jackson, Wyoming, Bozeman, Montana, and Alta and The Canyons, Utah.
American Avalanche Association
Americanavalancheassociation.org
The American Avalanche Association is a nonprofit organization comprised of a collective group of dedicated professionals engaged in the study, forecasting, control and mitigation of snow avalanches. Association membership includes qualified researchers, professional avalanche forecasters, snow safety officers, snow rangers and qualified ski patrollers, technicians and specialists. Also sets standards for avalanche education, defining Level One and Two classes.
The American Institute For Avalanche Research And Education
Focused on developing standardized curriculum for avalanche training courses, delivering avalanche instructor training courses for outdoor educators, providing outdoor educators involved in avalanche education with avalanche training course resources and funding projects that develop avalanche course support materials for educators and students, AIARE is the place to go when choosing an avalanche course
avtraining.org
Westwide Avalanche Network
Avalanche.org
The best place on the Web to view accident reports dating back to the 1995-96 season. It includes a full listing of avalanche forecast centers, and offers dozens of resources for further study on snow science, weather, education, and even avalanche dogs.
Colorado Avalanche Information Center
Boulder, Colorado
geosurvey.state.co.us/avalanche/
Forest Service Utah Avalanche Center
Salt Lake City, Utah
avalanche.org/~uac/index.htm
Bridger-Teton National Forest Avalanche Center
Teton Village, Wyoming
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