Welcome to the New Avalanche Season

[Utah Avalanche Center]

Welcome to the New Avalanche Season
 
I have taken the liberty to add your e-mail address from last season onto this season’s e-mail list to automatically receive each avalanche advisory as we update them.
If you no longer want to receive automated e-mails, click the link below to unsubscribe.
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If you have trouble with the daily advisories reaching your e-mail inbox, you can usually solve the problem by looking for the messages in your junk mail folder and then configure your e-mail program to allow e-mails from this account. For example, in Outlook, you simply right-click on the message in the junk mail folder, click on Junk Mail and choose “add Sender to the Safe Sender List”.
 New Products This Season

• Our web designer, Jim Conway is busy updating the look of our graphic avalanche advisory, which should be launched sometime early this winter. The graphic advisory has proved so popular that several other avalanche centers in the country will be using the same icons and look this winter. This is the first step toward a unified format for all avalanche advisories in the country.
• We are offering streaming audio and podcasts of our advisories this season and we will also experiment with a video podcast each Friday, which will discuss special concerns for the coming weekend. We will also start to compile a library of video podcats of avalanche tutorials. Stay tuned.
• You also notice the new logo created by the Friends of the Utah Avalanche Center to help promote awareness of our products. Stickers will be available this winter for all the truly cool people who want to display them on their cars, snowboards, skies or snowmobiles.
• We have a new toll free number to access all our audio avalanche advisories: 888-999-4019. This will replace the local phone numbers in all the local calling areas in Utah. The phone line is generously provided by Backcountry.com.
• You will notice new 30-second video PSA’s, which will play before the movies start in the Larry Miller Theaters.
• We have created new Are You Beeping signs at the backcountry access gates of many ski areas. These signs also feature an electronic device which beeps and flashes when it detects a beacon at close range. This helps to send the message that no one should enter the backcountry without the proper equipment.
• You will also notice that the overall danger rating will appear in many of the newspapers, radio programs and TV weather reports. In recent years there has been an alarming rise in fatalities to people who are relatively avalanche-unaware and we are trying to reach people who don’t know about our services.

Thanks for your support. We are all part of an amazing avalanche community, which has developed in Utah. We all teach each other and the more that avalanche-educated people like you can reach out and teach others with less knowledge or experience, the more we all benefit, and the less we will all have to read about tragic accidents in the newspapers.
 
Also, when we plead on our daily advisories that we want to hear from you if you have anything we should know about, we really mean it. Often people assume that we are some kind of all-knowing entity. We’re not. Like many other public service organizations that are overworked and under funded, we need your help. Don’t hesitate to call or e-mail and report what you find. We could sure use the help.
 
Bruce Tremper
Director


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