The Bronze Chapter continued to promote PNW Winter recreation, healthful movement, outdoor skill-building, knowledge-sharing, and representation of communities of color in the outdoors through collaboration with our friends at the Mount Baker – Snoqualmie National Forest Service and Northwest Avalanche Center (NWAC).
Steve Showalter (NWAC professional) led the way addressing topics including situational awareness, weather, snow conditions, terrain observations, avalanche signs, and winter travel techniques and demonstrated the use of transceiver, probe, and shovel.
This snowshoe focused entirely on Avalanche and Safety Awareness. Instead of sitting in a classroom talking about avalanche awareness, we snowshoed in Commonwealth Basin to experientially learn about avalanche awareness and the tools of snow rescue (shovel, probe, transceiver). It was a nice of day of learning that unexpectedly ended with blue skies and sunshine!
The Bronze Chapter provides a vibrant community for underrepresented outdoor enthusiasts of color, offering year-round opportunities for connection, skill-building, and knowledge-sharing that is mindful, healthful, welcoming, and encouraging. If you’d like to support our work you can donate here.