LINX main: avalanche/backcountry: AVALANCHE

• American Association of Avalanche Professionals (AAAP) engaged in the study, forecasting, control and mitigation of snow avalanches.
• Backcountrysafety.com - Enhancing backcountry and avalanche safety education
• Canadian Avalanche Association - provides certificate avalanche training courses for skiers, snowmobilers and others. Offers updates on danger levels in Western Canada.
• Colorado Avalanche Information Center (CAIC) - snow avalanche forecasting and education center for the state of Colorado.
• Courses to Take- a good list of courses from nwsnow.org.
• Cyberspace Snow and Avalanche Center
• Gallatin National Forest Avalanche Center - current avalanche advisory, education, information about the friends of the Avalanche Center, and more.
• Inside Avalanche! - explore a place where the art of film making meets the science of natural disasters for a NOVA special on avalanches.
• Northwest Weather and Avalanche Center - promotes public safety by helping reduce the impacts of snow, avalanches and adverse mountain weather on transportation, industry and recreation.
• Swiss Federal Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research
• Westwide Avalanche Network - site created in affiliation with the American Association of Avalanche Professionals.