Who knew the Utah Avalanche Center could make a ski movie as good as any other adrenaline-fueled tomfoolery currently on tour in mountain towns? For this week’s Friday Video, we’re featuring the UAC’s “2011-2012 Utah Backcountry Review,” an educational recap about last season’s snowpack and avalanche accident season. If you think that may sound like…
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New Wasatch Backcountry Skiing Map an encyclopedia of routes
There a new map of the Central Wasatch for backcountry skiers, and it’s a doozy. The Wasatch Backcountry Skiing Map by Steve Achelis is the most comprehensive map we’ve seen. It features every known, named ski route in Mill Creek and the Cottonwood Canyons, which covers over 1,100 skiable lines. In addition to the indexed,…
Utah Snow and Avalanche Workshop now at South Towne Center
It’s time once again for the annual Utah Snow and Avalanche Workshop. In previous years, the event has been held at The Depot in downtown Salt Lake City, but this year the South Towne Expo Center in Sandy will play host. In this, the 4th annual workshop, the best and brightest minds in the avalanche…
Raise dinero for UAC at Black Diamond Fundraising Party
It’s time for the 19th annual Utah Avalanche Center Fundraising Party at the Black Diamond Store! Believe it or not, but fall colors are already starting to show in Parley’s Canyon. Winter is fast approaching, even though it’s still August and those ungodly hot temperatures are vexing us in the valley. But before we know…
Utah Avalanche Center hopes to create avalanche app
In the world of smartphones, there’s an app for seemingly everything. And there could soon be an app for saving lives in the backcountry, as the Utah Avalanche Center is applying for a grant to create an app that would unify their website, email, SMS, and social media alerts into a neat open source platform…
Avalanche fatality in Dutch Draw near Canyons Resort
Another avalanche fatality has occurred in Dutch Draw, located just off the 9990 lift in the backcountry outside the Canyons ski resort. A 24-year-old Salt Lake City man, Timothy Robert Baker, was killed after being buried in a slide at around 3 p.m. in the afternoon. According to KSL, Baker was snowboarding out of bounds…
Bid on eBay and help the Utah Avalanche Center
The Utah Avalanche Center is always in need of donations from the backcountry community to “keep you on top,” and they’ve come up with a lot of creative ways to collect the fundage they require to give us the daily avalanche forecast we rely on. Right now, you can bid on several outdoor gear items…
Avalanche kills snowboarder on Kessler Peak
An avalanche claimed the second fatality of the 2011/12 winter season when a snowboarder triggered a deep slab on the west side of Kessler Peak in Big Cottonwood Canyon. Alecsander Barton, a 25-year-old man living in Salt Lake City, was backcountry touring on the morning of January 28 with two other people. The party skinned…
Jamie Pierre killed in avalanche at Snowbird
It’s only mid-November, and Utah has already experienced its first avalanche fatality of the ski season. Jamie Pierre, a pro skier who was well known in the Snowbird community and the ski world, was killed after being swept away in a slide that took him over a band of cliffs. According to the Salt Lake…
Get avy smart at 2011 Utah Snow and Avalanche Workshop
Backcountry skiers, splitboarders, snowshoers, snowmobilers and anyone else who recreates in Utah’s winter backcountry absolutely has to be smart about avalanche conditions and safety. Education is key, but even if you’ve taken the requisite avalanche courses, continuing to learn is important. That’s why attending the annual Utah Snow and Avalanche Workshop should be a yearly…