This event has been cancelled Designed for motorized backcountry travel. 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. The field day will take place at Baker Creek. There is a connected presentation at the Sawtooth Snowmobile Club at Karl Malone’s in Hailey on January 10. We highly recommend going to that before coming to the field day. Please pre-register with this link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdBULbilneqo0QaQ6UR8i8E9DxkIxNAJhFy5DJAG4dtGpa-4w/viewform?usp=sf_link and email Annie at education@sawtoothavalanche.com with any questions. There is a $50 suggested donation to the Friends of the SAC to cover instructor costs. Donations can be made on www.sawtoothavalanche.com (click the donate button) or via Venmo @sawtooth-avalanche. Thank you! More information will be sent out the week of the event! For more information on this, and to see other events we host, please see our Facebook page.

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, ...

Join the Friends of the Sawtooth Avalanche Center for a 90 minute presentation based on the Know Before You Go platform, introducing basic concepts about snow, avalanches, and traveling safely in and near avalanche terrain. Learn from the Friends of SAC instructor team of snow experts, mountain guides, and experienced avalanche educators. We invite everyone to join if you’re learning about avalanches for the first time or are a seasoned backcountry user ready for a yearly refresher. No registration is needed for the presentation. This event will be in person but will also be live-streamed! You can find a link to the Livestream on the Library’s website: https://thecommunitylibrary.libcal.com/event/13408048 In addition to the presentation, The Friends also put on Introduction to Avalanche Field Days. You must attend the entire presentation to attend a field session. You can pre-register for an optional field session ($50 suggested donation) here: https://forms.gle/KwcSVSUQtomxu4i97 Photo Credit: Ben VandenBos

Join the Friends of the Sawtooth Avalanche Center for a 90 minute presentation based on the Know Before You Go platform, introducing basic concepts about snow, avalanches, and traveling safely in and near avalanche terrain. Learn from the Friends of SAC instructor team of snow experts, mountain guides, and experienced avalanche educators. We invite everyone to join if you’re learning about avalanches for the first time or are a seasoned backcountry user ready for a yearly refresher. There is a $15 suggested donation, no preregistration required. In addition to the presentation, The Friends also put on Introduction to Avalanche Field Days. You must attend the entire presentation to attend a field session. You can pre-register for an optional field session ($50 suggested donation) here: https://forms.gle/KwcSVSUQtomxu4i97

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/KwcSVSUQtomxu4i97 We will send out more information about the course in the week leading up to it.

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 our website at sawtoothavalanche.com. 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/KwcSVSUQtomxu4i97 We will send out more information about the course in the week leading up to it.

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. 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/KwcSVSUQtomxu4i97 We will send out more information about the course in the week leading up to it.