Utah Avalanche Center Podcast

About Utah Avalanche Center Podcast

The podcast that helps keep you on top of the snow rather than buried beneath it.

Publisher

Utah Avalanche Center

Category

society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

19 Dec 2017

Latest episode

4 Apr 2026

Latest episodes

4 of 62 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   4 Apr 2026TRANSCRIPT

   How Healthy Is Utah's Backcountry Culture?

   Ski guide Jenna Malone and IFMGA mountain guide Chris Brown discuss the evolving health of Utah's backcountry culture with guest host Brooke Mauschund, exploring etiquette and community in a changing mountain environment.

2. 

   10 Feb 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Finding the Goldilocks Zone for Uncertainty in the Avalanche Forecast

   Eeva Latosuo and Brian Lazar explore the challenges of communicating uncertainty in avalanche forecasts, focusing on balancing transparency with user confidence in this interview.

3. 

   21 Jan 2026TRANSCRIPT

   AI, Machine Learning, and the Value of Expert Intuition at the Utah Avalanche Center

   In late winter, 2025, a new AI tool developed by the Utah Avalanche Center flagged a layer in the snowpack as posing a potential risk. Then, just days later, nearly two-dozen avalanches failed on that same layer. It was a powerful demonstration of the potential benefits of the Utah Computer-Assisted Avalanche Support Tool (UCAAST), the UAC's new AI-powered asset. Travis Morrison and Chad Bracklesberg helped develop UCAAST, and they've built several different models into its programming aimed at improving forecast accuracy and efficiency. Morrison and Bracklesberg join Drew to discuss how the tool could inform the development of the daily forecast and supplement the deep well of expert knowledge already on hand at the UAC.

Inside a recent episode

How Healthy Is Utah's Backcountry Culture?

Published 4 Apr 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] And so the reasons for having those skills, there are reasons you should have those skills, but just having those skills on the run, being able to travel uphill efficiently, being a great downhill skier, Alpine skier, aren't enough on their own to make you a skilled backcountry traveler. There is a list, a laundry list of skills that we're all developing and learning or building upon, I should say, kind of throughout our lives as people who travel through the mountains. Right. And I think there is, with any activity that we partake in in the mountains, there are inherent risks. And I think if you're used to partaking in activities that aren't necessarily quote unquote in the mountains, it's hard to kind of grasp the gravity of what you're doing, even if it is a somewhat casual thing. […]

Reach and audience

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YouTube views

9,087,690

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.9 / 5

103 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

29 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 56 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

49

Social presence

0

YouTube

93

Engagement

67

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