Next Season’s Goals

• Work with the Friends of the SAC to secure recurring funding for our 4th Forecaster position.

• Host in-person education events (fingers crossed!) while using technology to stream and/or record our presentations.

• Continue to work with other U.S. avalanche centers on shared web tools and products, focusing on weather data visualization tools. These joint projects are a more efficient use of financial resources and provide a more uniform user experience from one avalanche center to the next.

• Refine current web products and create new interfaces to provide easily understandable avalanche, snow, and weather information for novice through advanced users.

• Develop additional online tutorials for our newer web products.

• Work with the Friends of the SAC to maintain the volume and quality of our online video offerings.

• Work with the Friends of the SAC to increase local avalanche awareness offerings, especially to K-12 students and the Spanish-speaking community.

• Continue to make inroads with, and increase outreach to, the motorized community, which makes up 23 of Idaho’s last 24 backcountry avalanche fatalities.

• Continue our outreach efforts in Idaho Falls and other Snake River plain communities to provide basic avalanche education and an avalanche and weather information-sharing platform for eastern Idaho recreationists.

• Increase our connection with the Boise motorized community.

• Continue to encourage an increase in both quantity and quality of public observations.

• Continue work on ongoing technology transfer and research projects to benefit both avalanche professionals and recreational users.

• Work on our riding skills—we’re getting better, but no one is wondering if we are pro riders!