James Gordon Avalanche Trust - Snowtime Avalanche Safety New Zealand

More on Avalanches

You can spend as much time as you wish studying avalanches. I promise that you won't run out of study options--avalanches are not very well understood, the truth be told.

Avalanche advisories for mountains in New Zealand
Frequently Asked Questions about avalanches;
Check the avalanche glossary for explanations of bizarre avalanche terminology;
The databases at CRREL and NSIDC reference just about all the research ever done in the field of snow and avalanches, and the Natural Disaster Database Search Engine will never route you to some dippy hockey fan's page when you search with the keyword "avalanche".
Snow research and snow crystal links.
Avalanche.org (West-Wide Avalanche Network) is a grab-bag of useful avalanche information, including avalanche accident statistics, links to avalanche advisories all over the western US, weather links, remote weather telemetry data, an avalanche library and much, much more.
The Utah Avalanche Center has a new site with links to all the avalanche forecasts in the state.

Snow and Avalanche Programs

To learn more about avalanches in a course visit the following links to find out about courses available in New Zealand.

The New Zealand Mountain Safety Organisation offers courses in mountain and avalanche saftey.

Other snow and avalanches programs are offered by Tai Poutini Polytech, now known as Mountain Education Centre of New Zealand or Otago Polytech
Alpine guides in Mt Aspiring/ Mt Cook/ Mt Hutt/ Backcountry Guides/ Peak Risk / Outdoor experiences also offer programmes, vistit the links: www.offpiste.co.nz, www.heliskiing.co.nz.

E-zines

Mountain Saftey Council New Zealand publishes a newsletter and has an avalanche advisory service on which you can subscribe.
DOC has useful information on safety
Firstrax is a Web magazine about Colorado backcountry sports that includes snowpack information pertinent to the La Sals.
Couloir Magazine is a great on-line source of information useful for backcountry sports.
Mountain Zone is by far the slickest backcountry e-magazine. Look for numerous articles about avalanche awareness topics, avalanche fatalities of the rich and famous, and other mountaineering info.

Other Avalanche Organisations

The following organisations carry out good work in avalanche awareness. Some of them were so kind to share their resources with us.