The Friends of the Utah Avalanche Center partners with the Forest Service to provide avalanche forecasting and education in Utah. Our respective responsibilities are shown below and our commongoal is to keep people on top of the Greatest Snow on Earth.  We depend on grants and individual and business donations to provide these services  We are a non-profit 501(c) (3) corporation.

Paul Diegel - Executive Director
Friends of the Utah Avalanche Center
P.O. Box 521353
Salt Lake City, UT 84152-1353
(801)365-5522
friends@utahavalanchecenter.org

Some of the benefits you have gotten from supporting the FUAC, things that we could not do without your donations:

• An up-to-date website with avalanche and mountain weather forecasts, photo and video archives, educational modules, accident reports, snow profiles, user input forms, and more
• Early morning weather and avalanche updates
• Increased state, county, and city funding from intense lobbying and legislative awareness effort
• No reduction in forecasters or daily forecasts in tough economic times
• Free and low-cost education and awareness programs
• More accurate forecasts due to an improved observer and communication network
• Some of the most highly qualified, experienced,  and educated forecasters in the world