Our Director Wendy Wagner passed away in her sleep earlier this week after fighting ovarian cancer for the last year and a half. She spent her last few weeks surrounded by family and friends. It is hard to put into words what she meant to our team, the Alaska snow community, and the national avalanche
As we gear up for the 2024/25 winter season, there are some major changes in store. First off, the addition of the Weekend Avalanche Outlook for Chugach State Park will continue. Look for those to start up near Thanksgiving. Second is really the meat of this year’s growth… and that will be for our new
Many of you participated in the survey we posted at the end of last season trying to gain a little insight on what people are finding useful in the advisory. While we were targeting info specifically on the ‘Problem Rose’ icon we implemented last season, we were also able to gain some insight on what
We’re looking for your input! We’ve made some changes to the forecast this year, and we are curious to hear how well it has worked for everybody. Specifically, you may have noticed we started using a new icon, the Problem Rose, to illustrate where a given avalanche problem is most likely to be found. We
ECTP29? PST 45/100 end? CT13? What does it all mean? For some time now we’ve been wanting to create a ‘cheat sheet’ for those unfamiliar, or may want a little reminder, of what the jumble of letters and numbers mean in a lot of the snowpack observations we share. These are codes for snowpit test