For snow sports outside of the resorts. This community includes back country skiing, snowboarding, telemarking and more. Books Staying Alive in Avalanche Terrain by Bruce Tremper Backcountry Skiing: Skills for Ski Touring and Ski Mountaineering by Martin Volken, Scott Schell, and Margaret Wheeler AUTONOMY MASTERY AND PURPOSE in the Avalanche Patch, Bruce Kay Mountaineering the Freedom Of the Hills Avalanche Forcasting Centers Colorado Avalanche Information Center [http://avalanche.state.co.us/index.php] Northwest Weather and Avalanche Center [http://www.nwac.us/] Sierra Avalanche Center [http://www.sierraavalanchecenter.org/] Eastern Sierra Avalanche Center [http://esavalanche.org/] Mount Shasta Avalanche Center [http://www.shastaavalanche.org/] Alaska: Chugach Avalanche Center [http://cnfaic.org/] Canada [http://www.avalanche.ca/cac/bulletins/latest] Montana [http://www.mtavalanche.com/] Sawtooth (Idaho) [http://www.sawtoothavalanche.com/] General Avalanche Information US Forest Service Avalanche Center [http://www.fsavalanche.org/] US Avalanche Center [http://www.avalanche.org/] Canadian Avalanche Center [http://www.avalanche.ca/cac/] Trip Planning and Mapping Hillmap [http://www.hillmap.com/] Cal Topo [https://caltopo.com/] GaiaGPS (non-free) [https://www.gaiagps.com] Google Earth Pro (free) [https://www.google.com/earth/versions/#earth-pro] Acknowledgement A thank you to /u/pragmaticminimalist and the /r/backcountry community on Reddit for supporting a great community for over 12 years. I have copied the side bar links from /r/backcountry for convenience and added some of my own. (Happy to throw mod to /u/pragmaticminimalist if he joins Lemmy and is interested.)