• Thanks for the outstanding on snow avy class yesterday!  Being very new to backcountry skiing, the class taught me the essential skills I need to venture out into the backcountry where I can practice the skills learned and also learn from experience.  I couldn’t have been more impressed with the class.  Please keep up the good work! -Adam P.

• Thanks for putting on the free avalanche training.  It was very informative and helpful.  Our guide Liz did a great job. -Brad W.

• Hey Bob and everyone over at FOBP, I Just wanted to drop a quick line and say thanks so much for putting on the avalanche training this weekend at Berthoud Pass.  It’s awesome that you guys put the time into doing the class right and offer it to the public for free!  Education is the number one tool to keeping us out of the path of an avalanche. -Pete G.

• I wanted to once again thank all of those involved with putting together this past weekend’s free avalanche safety course at Berthoud Pass.  Jamie was a great instructor and I truly appreciate the knowledge that everyone in my class and I gained from the on-snow experience at Berthoud Pass.  Offering a course of this caliber for free makes it truly accessible for all backcountry users to be better prepared to make good decisions and be better prepared for the hazards of backcountry use.  Thank you! -John M.

• Thanks so much for putting this on again. I thought the session on Saturday was fantastic. -Jeff W.

Snowboarder Brad Gilbert takes us on a really nice tour at the Pass. Thanks Brad!

“I don’t know if it’s the oxygen deprivation from the altitude, the endorphins buzz from the hiking or the great tunes playing in my ears (today Truckin’ from Europe 72) but I rarely feel as simply joyous as I do when climbing up those hills. I’m not a big John Denver fan, but when I stand on top of Berthoud Pass after a hike, I’ve certainly got that Rocky Mountain High…”

A ski and snowboarding tour of Berthoud Pass, Colorado.

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Thanks Everyone!

At this time we are completely booked for our upcoming on-snow sessions.

We have been getting a lot of questions about switching dates, confirmations, etc. At this time we cannot accommodate any date changes, and to help sort out any confusion a list of attendees is posted below:

Saturday

Sunday

Friends of Berthoud Pass and the Winter Wildlands Alliance present the best work from a variety of grassroots film makers. Come enjoy a selection of short and longer award-winning films featuring the best human-powered, deep-powder skiing on the planet. Proceeds to promote and preserve winter wildlands and a quality human-powered snowsports experience on public lands, and to preserve the legacy of human-powered winter recreation at Berthoud Pass.

Saturday, 2/6/2010, 8:00pm, The Oriental Theater, $5.00 at the door

Friday, 2/12/2010, 8:00pm, The Oriental Theater, $5.00 at the door

The Oriental Theater (4335 w.44th Ave, Denver 80212)

A rare and dreaded black danger rose was issued today by our Friends at the Colorado Avalanche Information Center for the San Juan mountains. After more than 50 inches of snow in 50 hours, the CAIC warns that “human and natural avalanches are certain.”

We’re definitely of two minds here. We love the idea of enormous avalanches plundering down steep mountainsides like a horde of bloodthirsty white dragons unchecked and wild with blood lust. But that scares us a little bit too.