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The eighth annual Utah Snow and Avalanche Workshop is scheduled Saturday at the SouthTowne Expo Center in Sandy.
It is designed to educate avalanche and snow safety professionals as well as those who love to play and work in the outdoors on the latest in avalanche safety, backcountry skills, techniques and technology.
Avalanche professionals will meet in the morning. At 1 p.m., an open-to-the-public event will be held with seminars including backcountry responsibility, climate change and expert backcountry intuition being offered.
Tickets are available at the door. For information, log on to http://www.UtahAvalancheCenter.org.
New this year is an updated free one-hour Kn ow Before You Go avalanche awareness program.
The new Utah Avalanche Center director is Mark Staples, who is taking over for Bruce Tremper, who retired after 29 years as director. Staples was an avalanche forecaster in Bozeman, Mont., before coming to Utah.
Also new this year is that the Utah Avalanche Center will increase avalanche forecasts from one to two a week on the Skyline Plateau near Mt. Pleasant, a popular destination for snowmobilers, skiers and snowboarders.