Well this is one of the easiest site I have been at to educate my self on Avalanche safety. It has lots of videos which I like because you get to see how things are done instead of trying to guess from reading. If you don't know much about Avalanches I would go check this site out. I would start at "The Basics". That's located in the gold pull down bar at mid screen. Than just work your way across. http://www.fsavalanche.com/Default.aspx