Avalanche Bulletins
⎪Avalanche Information and Forecasting Sites
*Save the relevant links below to your smartphone’s home screen. Stay informed and monitor avalanche conditions in your area every day! !!! WARNING: do not substitute avalanche reports for reading, classroom training, and real-world, in-the-field observation or experience!!! Studying forecasting sites only complements the knowledge gained from these resources. Go here: Education, and here: Books and Publications to learn more. Two excellent, highly detailed, highly informative analyses of fatal avalanche accidents can be found here: Accident: Wilson Glade and here: Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek. Both should be considered required reading for every backcountry traveler. The links above and here Know Before You Go are great resources; you can review some VERY GENERAL and VERY LIMITED safety rules here.
NORTH AMERICA
UNITED STATES (incl. Alaska): Avalanche.org Comprehensive forecasting data from all state, forest service, and nonprofit avalanche centers in the U.S., all from one portal.
ALASKA: Alaska Avalanche Information Center; Anchorage Avalanche Center (snow-season backcountry information and education for the Western Chugach Mountains and Chugach State Park).
CANADA: Avalanche Canada
EUROPE
EUROPE: European Avalanche Warning Services Includes data from all EU avalanche centers
FRANCE (Chamonix/Mont Blanc region): Chamonix-Mont-Blanc Tourist Office Avalanche Bulletin
FRANCE (La Grave/Les Ecrins): La Grave Telepheriques Patrollers Advices
ITALY: AINEVA Interregional Association for Coordination and Documentation for Problems Relating to Snow and Avalanches
NORWAY: Varsom Norwegian Avalanche Warning Service
SWITZERLAND: WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF; SLF Snow Maps
—Jimmy Chin
Professional mountain athlete, photographer, skier, climber, surfer, author, Piolet d'Or award nominee, Oscar award-winning film director, and a very lucky avalanche survivor.
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— Elyse Saugstad
Professional free skier. 2008 Freeride World Champion. Partner to famed adventure athlete Cody Townsend. Survivor of the deadly and well-documented 2012 Tunnel Creek avalanche.
TOP 25
The Best Ski Lifts in the World
The Midi, Aiguille du Midi, Chamonix, France
The Skyway, Skyway Monte Bianco, Courmayeur, Italy
Funispace Cable Car, Les Attelas, Verbier, Switzerland
Cornu Chairlift, Le Brevent, Chamonix, France
Mont-Fort Cable Car, Verbier/4 Vallees, Val de Bagnes, Switzerland
Jackson Hole Tram, Jackson Hole, Wyoming USA
Brevent Cable Car, Le Brevent, Chamonix, France
KT-22, Palisades Tahoe, Truckee, California USA
Grands Montets Cable Car, Argentiere/Chamonix, France
Double Chair, Silverton Mountain, Silverton, Colorado USA
Peak 2 Peak Gondola, Whistler-Blackcomb, Whistler, Canada
Téléphérique des Glaciers de la Meije, La Grave, France
Jungfrau Railway, Kleine Scheidegg, Grindelwald, Switzerland
Prospect Express (Chair 12), Palmyra Peak, Telluride, Colorado USA
Passo Pordoi Cable Car, Canazei, Italy
The Plunge (Chair 9), Telluride Ski Resort, Telluride, Colorado USA
Titlis Rotair Gondola, Engelberg, Switzerland
Schlasman’s Lift, Bridger Bowl, Bozeman, Montana USA
Lessieres Express chairlift, Val d’Isere, France
The Stoke Chairlift, Revelstoke, British Columbia
The Kachina Lift, Taos, New Mexico USA
Wildspitz chair, Vent, Austria
Schindlergrat, St. Anton, Austria
Snowbird Aerial Tram, Snowbird, Utah
Single Chair, Mad River Glen, Vermont
(for on or off-piste terrain)
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Avalanche Bulletins
Guide Services
Lodging/Huts
Education
Books/Publications
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Photography