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Contribute to avalanche research!! White Heat Project is seeking your input.

White Heat Project seeks your input: The aim of the White Heat Project is to generate new and usable knowledge on risk-taking behavior, and on factors behind decision errors in avalanche terrain in particular. The White Heat Sleds project is an extension to the previous "SkiTracks" project, and is a collaboration between a group of researchers at UiT The Arctic University of Norway, in Tromsø; Montana State University, in Bozeman, USA; and Umeå University, in Umeå, Sweden. More info here:...

Upcoming Events: 4th annual SNOWBALL on Feb 16th – Free Beacon Practice Feb 17th

2018 Snowball February 16 @ 7:00 pm - 11:00 pm | $35 Support avalanche safety in Southcentral Alaska at the 2018 Snowball, benefiting Friends of the Chugach Avalanche Center and Alaska Avalanche School. Live music by the Hope Social Club, silent auction, raffle, locally brewed beer and good people. Tickets available at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/snowball-2018-tickets-42017138392.   February 17 @ 11:00 am - 12:30 pm Join CNFAIC forecasters for a FREE hands-on and in-the-snow avalanche beacon practice!!! This 1.5 hour informal beacon practice is geared for all user groups....

Advisory Page Updates for 2018!

Happy New Year! Monday January 8, 2018 when you open the Turnagain Area Avalanche Advisory it will look different. We are making a few changes. For a document explaining the changes click HERE, and a quick video tutorial here below.  These changes are part of a national push to have consistency between public avalanche advisories across the country and to help better define the avalanche hazard each day. Go to avalanche.org to look at other avalanche centers. If you are not seeing...

What events are happening in your neighborhood this Holiday season?

Check out our Calendar Page for upcoming events, workshops and avalanche courses. CNFAIC will be hosting several FREE evening talks on different topics along with a couple FREE avalanche rescue hands-on workshops! Also listed are professional avalanche courses by the Alaska Avalanche School and alaskasnow.org. GET the GEAR and GET the TRAINING!!

Annual CNFAIC Fundraiser – Nov 16th at the Beartooth Theater Pub!!

Mark and Janelle Smiley are a husband-wife duo that have spent the last seven years climbing the “50 Classic Climbs of North America” based off a book written by Alan Steck and Steve Roper in 1979. No one has climbed all 50 and they are the closest, having summited 48. Mark is a professional photographer, filmmaker, speaker and mountain guide and Janelle is a professional athlete and Holistic Life Guide (a unique profession which combines mountain guiding and life coaching...