Avalanche Courses
Join me for an avalanche class! I teach public avalanche courses in December and January with Alaska Guide Collective. Booking starts on October 1 at the AGC Avalanche Booking page.
Joe's Qualifications To Be Your Avalanche Instructor
IFMGA-licensed Mountain Guide
AMGA-certified Ski, Rock and Alpine Guide
Certified American Avalanche Association instructor
American Avalanche Association Pro 1 and Pro 2 instructor
Pro 2 examined
WFR and CPR certified
20+ years of avalanche instructing
20+ years of ski guiding
30+ years of backcountry skiing and ski mountaineering
Some of Joe’s Avalanche Publications
Avoiding Avalanches in Remote Alaska, The Avalanche Review, 2021.
Learning from Mistakes—Train your Intuition to Make Good Decisions in Avalanche Terrain, The Avalanche Review, Feb 2018.
Your System—An Individualized Approach to Avoiding Avalanches, The Avalanche Review, April 2016.
Mind the Red Flags—Avoid Avalanches by Recognizing the Warning Signs, Coast, Jan 2016.
The Importance of Failure—The Art of Learning from our Follies, Off-Piste, March 2015. Reprinted in The Avalanche Review.
Communication Methods for Avalanche Terrain, AIARE Newsletter, pages 9-11, Summer 2010.
Get the Data & Get Out—Quick Pits, Spadout.com, Dec 2009
Red Flags for Snow Stability, Turnagain Times, Dec 2009.
Office Time before Play Time—Tour Planning. Spadout.com, Oct 2009.
Decision Making Framework, Backcountry, March 2009.
Shear Quality, Backcountry, Jan 2009.
Six Flags, Backcountry, Jan 2008.
Avoid the Big Ride, part II—Learn to Read Avalanche Slopes. Climbing, 2000.
Avoid the Big Ride—Learn to Read Avalanche Slopes. Climbing, 2000.
Avalanche Trigger: Artificial Elk, The Avalanche Review, 1(1): 4. 1997. Reprinted in: The Beacon, winter 1998.
The temporal variations of near-surface faceted crystals, Red Mountain Pass Corridor, Colorado. Poster presentation at the 1998 International Snow Science Workshop.
Near-surface faceted crystals and their effect on snow stability, Red Mountain Pass Corridor, Colorado. Proceedings of the 66th Western Snow Conference, 1998.
Avalanches and Climbing—The Human Factor, Rock & Ice, vol 82, 1997.