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Intro to Avalanche Safety

Avalanches are a risk any time you head into snow-covered mountains. Learn basic information to help you make good decisions to avoid avalanches.

How to Choose and Use an Avalanche Transceiver

Learn how to choose this safety essential for snow travelers. We cover avalanche transceiver features, use tips and trailhead transceiver checks.

Avalanche Safety for Snowshoers

Snowshoeing is an easy, fun and relatively low-risk winter activity—as long as you follow a few basic guidelines about avoiding avalanches.

Avalanche Rescue Overview

This overview of topics covered in an avalanche rescue class introduces essential skills such as searching, probing and digging for a buried victim.

Avalanche Awareness

This series covers the basics of avalanches, how to read an avalanche forecast, how to identify avalanche terrain and rescue basics.

How to Read an Avalanche Forecast

An avalanche forecast tells you about potential slide dangers. Learn what it is, where to find it and how to read a forecast.