Mar 15, 2026 | AIARE Avalanche Education, Backcountry Skiing, Colorado, Education, Ski Mountineering
This spring in Colorado there was a pattern with the kinds of avalanches people were getting involved with: dry snow avalanches in a spring context. There are a couple nuances with this specific setup that can help us operate more effectively in the...
Mar 2, 2026 | AIARE Avalanche Education
This year has been fairly unprecedented in the number of avalanche accidents around the world. From the alps, to the Untied States up into Canada. Why is headline after headline another avalanche accident? Colorado Everywhere A Colorado snowpack...
Jan 12, 2026 | AIARE Avalanche Education
This is a great video that illustrates one of the trickiest avalanche problems in Colorado: the super hard slab, windslab. Windslabs are such an interesting problem. They come in a wide variety of forms and can present with very different characteristics....
Dec 4, 2025 | AIARE Avalanche Education, Backcountry Skiing, Education, Ski Mountineering
Prerequisites to Enroll Most AIARE 1 Courses do not have any prerequisite experience to signup. While it is great to make these courses available to everyone, it does create an inherent contradiction when people with vastly different skills are all on the same...
Dec 1, 2025 | AIARE Avalanche Education, Backcountry Skiing, Colorado
The use of the North American Danger Scale has a fair bit of nuance to it. Some people tend to get distracted by the “likelihood” verbiage especially when it comes to understanding the difference between Moderate and Considerable danger. In considerable danger...
Nov 28, 2025 | AIARE Avalanche Education, Backcountry Skiing, Colorado, Education, Educational Program, Guided, Rocky Mountain National Park, Ski Mountineering
I’m really excited about getting this program running this winter. This is a program that I really think will provide the best bang for your buck as far as winter backcountry readiness is concerned. Many students I work with in avalanche safety courses don’t...
