Join the Friends and Sun Valley Ski Patrol at the Beacon Park on top of Bald Mountain for a day of practicing your rescue skills. Whether you’ve never touched a transceiver or are a seasoned veteran of the backcountry, come take a lap through the beacon park to be entered into a raffle. Don’t know how to use the equipment? We’ll be there to teach you! Don’t have the equipment? We’ll have ours there!

An avalanche has happened and you’ve been able to successfully dig out your partner? Now what? The After the Avalanche series classes focus on different aspects of patient care following an avalanche. The second class will dig into initiating help from outside resources and the mechanics of planning and executing an evacuation plan. The class will take place on Tuesday, February 13th at 9 am. Please register here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdg60tTA55Uyzghf3zE5gn_d_cJz-BWxRqxVtYq2-DpDvUP2w/viewform?usp=sf_link Please email Annie at education@sawtoothavalanche.com with any questions. For more information on this, and to see other events we host, please see our Facebook page.

Join the Friends of the Sawtooth Avalanche Center instructors for a field day covering avalanche rescue basics, snowpack layering, avalanche terrain identification, and basic backcountry travel. Please note- you need to have attended a Friends’ Introduction to Avalanches presentation prior to participating in the field day. There is a $50 suggested donation to the Friends of SAC to cover instructor costs. Donations can be made on www.sawtoothavalanche.com (click the donate button) or via Venmo @sawtooth-avalanche. On your donation, please note that this is in conjunction with a field day. Thank you! We use a pre-registration system for courses due to high demand. Please sign up for a field day using this Field Day Sign Up Form: https://forms.gle/hBY2drU2uekEo6jd6 In a first for the Friends, there will be English speaking groups as well as Spanish speaking groups at the field day! Make sure to register for the language that you hope to participate in using the form above. We will send out more information about the course in the week leading up to it. We will meet at the SNRA and then spend the day near the SNRA or on Galena Pass. You will need a way to travel over snow (snowshoes, ...