Chilkat Valley News - Serving Haines and Klukwan, Alaska since 1966

AVALANCHE COURSE: Haines Avalanche Center forecaster Jeff Moskowitz teaches a Level 1 Avalanche Awareness Course. Giselle Miller, Rich Chapell, Beth Douthit, Hannah Blilie and Dylan Chapell learn how to dig a snow pit and analyze the snowpack's layers near the radio tower on Mount Ripinski.