The Friends of the Utah Avalanche Center is a non-profit 501(c) (3) corporation organized to support and contribute to the educational, environmental and scientific activities provided for the public by the Forest Service Utah Avalanche Center. These activities include, but are not limited to, avalanche education for the public, the protection of public safety through the dissemination of avalanche advisories and mountain weather forecasts, and other educational, environmental and scientific endeavors.Thanks to all of you who have helped the Utah Avalanche Center in the past. We depend on contributors like you for funding to accomplish our mission. If you would like to make a contribution to the Friends or to learn more, please follow one of the links to the right.
Paul Diegel - President
Friends of the Utah Avalanche Center
2084 East 3900 South
Salt Lake City, UT 84124
(801)365-5522
friends@utahavalanchecenter.org
More about FUAC
The Utah Avalanche Center is supported in part by the U.S. Forest Service, the State of Utah, and Salt Lake County. The support provided by these agencies covers only a part of the annual operating expenses. The Friends of the Utah Avalanche Center was formed in 1991 to bridge the gap between the available funding and the actual expenses of operating the UAC and to protect the UAC from year to year funding variations. Today, the Friends provides significant funding to the UAC as well as sponsoring avalanche education opportunities such as the Know Before You Go program and Level 1 avalanche classes. We also act as an advisory board to the UAC and gladly accept feedback and suggestions regarding the avalanche products that the UAC provides. We are an equal opportunity organization, dedicated to supporting winter backcountry users of all kinds anywhere in the state.
To raise money to support the UAC, we host fundraising events such as the Black Diamond pre-season party and the REI ski swap, we solicit donations from backcountry users, backcountry user groups, foundations, and corporate supporters, and we lobby the Utah legislature. We have established an endowment fund to ensure the sustainable long-term ability of the UAC to deliver the kind of avalanche forecasting and reporting information that Utah backcountry users have come to expect. We believe that the UAC is the leading avalanche center in the United States in terms of providing comprehensive, up to date, useable information and effective education to a wide range of backcountry users around the state and we are proud of our role in that.