On Dec. 11, a friend and I attended a slide show and lecture by Craig Gordon about the state of the Utah snowpack. His talk was about the evolution of our snowpack and how crusts can create weak layers that can fail and avalanche.
What I was most taken by was the dedication that Craig and his fellow forecasters at the Utah Avalanche Center have for keeping us backcountry users safe. They work every day to update the avalanche conditions across our state with their forecasts. Their work includes not only the forecasts, but, dozens of lectures to school kids and adults like the one we attended to get the word out.