New to avalanche safety? This is a great place to start. Presented by the National Avalanche Center and the Colorado Avalanche Center
Know Before You Go
A four-step process to help users stay safe and make good decisions in the backcountry
AvySavvy
Avalanche Canada’s online avalanche tutorial
Case Studies
Rescue at Cherry Bowl
An extraordinary story of rescue, and a timeless avalanche education piece
The Renshaw Avalanche Tragedy
Avalanche Canada worked with survivors, SAR members, and the BC Coroners Service to reconstruct this incident and better understand how the avalanche happened and why so many people were caught
The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek
Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times article on the 2012 avalanche in Washington’s Cascade Mountains
A Dozen More Turns
A documentary about a tragic backcountry ski trip in Montana’s Centennial Mountains in 2005
Wilson Glade Avalanche Report
Utah Avalanche Center’s report of an avalanche fatality in the Utah backcountry in 2021
Ride Another Day
Public service announcement about the 2008 Canyon Creek avalanche that claimed two lives
Avalanche In Revelstoke Backcountry With Chris Rubens & Noah Morrison
After triggering an avalanche while filming in the Revelstoke backcountry, these professional skiers turn a near-miss into an educational opportunity
Nick McNutt Avalanche Rescue
A professional skier triggers an avalanche while wearing a malfunctioning beacon
Off Piste: Tragedy in the Alps
Ski racers Bryce Astle and Ronnie Berlack had no idea of the danger of in-bounds avalanche terrain
This blog post from the American Avalanche Institute is a great place to start learning about how human factors influence decision-making in the backcountry
Sense-Making, Communication, and Why Humans are Terrible (in the Mountains)
Sara Boilen at 2023 WYSAW
Behavioral Science in the Backcountry
How avalanche experts and educators embraced behavioral science in order to understand why avalanche accidents were happening
Avalanche Resilience Project
Resources for avalanche-related grief, trauma, and mental health