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WEBSITES

avalanche.org

This site links to all local forecast centers, archived accident reports, and a spiffy state-by-state avalanche-course locator.

fsavalanche.org

The U.S. Forest Service runs users through an interactive backcountry tour, gives an avalanche-science primer, and provides links to SNOTEL graphs of snowpack characteristics.

avalanche.ca

The Canadian Avalanche Association provides satellite weather feeds, regional discussion boards, and timely academic articles.

BOOKS

Snow Sense: A Guide to Evaluation Snow Avalanche Hazard by Jill Fredston & Doug Fesler

This 120-page field guide – loaded with practical bull’s eye clues to snowpack stability, tips on weather analysis, and hazard checklists – is tiny enough to carry with you. ($9)

Staying Alive in Avalanche Terrain by Bruce Tremper

A 284-page tome, written by the director of Utah’s Avalanche Center, this is

the

textbook for course instructors. ($18)

DVD

Tracker 101

Teton Gravity Research and Backcountry Access team up in a 30-minute how-to video for the BCA Tracker DTS, the most popular beacon in North America. ($10; bcaccess.com)

MARCH/APRIL 2006

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