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Either Fredston's Snow Sense or the late (both, sadly) LaChapelle and Ferguson's ABCs of Avy Safety are good intro books. If you'll be spending much time in the BC, you'll want to read a more comprehensive book as well; the best is Tremper's Staying Alive in Avy Terrain. It's current, it covers some avy topics many of the others don't, and it reads well.

 

There's a lot of info, and even more up-to-date stuff, on the web. You'll find a ton following links beginning at avalanche.org and avalanche.ca.

 

Yes, take a Level One course, and best to hook up with a folk or two who are avy experienced and know the area you're skiing. As far as specific course, a local will have to answer for you, but Oregon's a pretty big place...what part? Portland?

 

The BC is about as good as it gets right now, but there's at least a couple tricky layers out there. Happy skiing.

 

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Take the ava course the material covered is so complex that you will take away much more from the course. The movement skills in avalanche terrair with other students and search and recovery skills are best learned in a group under a instructor. The theory contained in the books will be concisely tied together by a course; and the field evaluation techniques will make much more sense learned hands on.

 

Here are some books:

Tony Daffern, Avalanche Safety for Skiers and Climbers;

Fredstone & Fesler, Snow Sense;

McLung and Schaerer, The Avalanche Handbook.

 

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