...assessments and how to use that information to evaluate snowpack stability. Participants will also learn about safe travel practices in avalanche terrain, how to dig snow pits and how to use avalanche rescue gear and perform companion rescue.Tom...

...person at the time.We were not alone; the vast majority of avalanche victims choose or unknowingly ignore safe travel practices. In his book, "Staying Alive in Avalanche Terrain," Bruce Tremper notes that in about nine out of 10 avalanche...

...softball haunted house Monday evening at the Nugget Mall. The haunted house is a fundraiser to help the team pay for travel, practices and gear. The ghoulish production continues today from 5:30 to 9 p.m. Sound off on the important issues at

...taking the time to dig a snow pit to analyze the stability of the snow with each new day. It means learning safe travel practices and self-rescue techniques. All these skills take time to acquire, and can't be learned just in a classroom...

...for predecessors, Frank Murkowski and Tony Knowles. "No one challenged Gov. Murkowski's or Governor Knowles' travel practices," Van Flein said in an e-mail. "The rules were, and are, being changed in midstream for Governor Palin...