InfoEx Industry Standard for an Extraordinary Industry

InfoEx is a cooperative service managed by the Canadian Avalanche Association (CAA), providing a daily exchange of technical snow, weather and avalanche information for subscribers. Subscribers are individual CAA Professional Members, or organizations and commercial businesses (e.g. backcountry guiding companies, ski hills, BC Highways, Parks Canada) employing CAA Professional Members whose operations require actively managing avalanche hazards. InfoEx gives avalanche professionals access to data that is accurate, relevant and real time. This knowledge improves each subscriber’s awareness of the conditions, greatly enhancing their ability to manage their local avalanche risks.

InfoEx also serves as one of the key sources of data used by Avalanche Canada’s (AC) and other organizations public avalanche forecasters to produce and verify their products. The value of the InfoEx contribution to the AC public avalanche bulletin is estimated at an excess of $2 million annually. The significance of this contribution by avalanche professionals and their employers to public avalanche safety in the mountains of Canada cannot be overstated. InfoEx Subscribers 2018-19 Downhill Ski Resorts KPOW! Fortress Mountain Dezaiko Lodge • Coast/Chilcotin Big White Ski Resort Catskiing Extremely Canadian • Columbia Castle Mountain Great Canadian Heli-Skiing Golden Alpine Holidays • Kootenay Pass Fernie Alpine Resort Gostlin Keefer Lake Lodge Hyland Backcountry Services • Kootenay Region Grouse Mountain Catskiing Ice Creek Lodge • North Cascades District Kicking Horse Mountain Resort Great Northern Snowcat Skiing Kokanee Glacier • Northwest Region Lake Louise Ski Resort Island Lake Lodge Kootenay Backcountry Guides Ningunsaw Marmot Basin K3 Cat Ski Kyle Rast • Northwest Region Terrace Mount Washington Alpine Resort Kingfisher Heliskiing Lake O’Hara Lodge Northwest Avalanche Solutions Norquay Last Frontier Heliskiing Mistaya Lodge Ltd. Panorama • Bell2 Mountain Skills Academy • CN Rail North Rockies Red Mountain Resort • Ripley Creek Neil Warren Ski Guiding Subdivisions Revelstoke Mountain Resort Mica Heliskiing Powder Creek Lodge • CN Skeena Sun Peaks Resort Mike Wiegele Helicopter Skiing Purcell Mountain Lodge Pretivm Sunshine Village Monashee Powder Snowcats Rescue Dynamics Storm Mountain Technical Whistler Blackcomb Mustang Powder Revelstoke Backcountry Guides Services • Blackcomb Mountain Northern Escape Heli-Skiing Selkirk Lodge • CPR Golden • Whistler Mountain Powder Mountain Selkirk Mountain Experience • CPR Revelstoke Whitewater Ski Resort Purcell Heli-Skiing Sherpani Guides Teck Retallack Ski Chic-Chocs Mechanized Wilderness Guiding RK.Heliski Panorama Banff Skookum Backcountry Adventures Government & NGO “Public ASG Heli Selkirk Snowcat Skiing Sol Mountain Service” Programs Backcountry Snowcats Selkirk Tangiers Heli Skiing Sorcerer Lodge Alberta Parks - Kananaskis Baldface Silvertip Lodge Summit Mountain Guides Country Public Safety BearPaw Heli-Skiing Skeena Heliskiing Talus Lodge Avalanche Canada Bella Coola Heli Sports Snowwater Heli Skiing Thompson Rivers University • Revelstoke • TPL Stellar Heliskiing Tom Wolfe • South Rockies • Eagle Lodge TLH Heli Skiing Valhalla Mountain Touring Avalanche Quebec • Pantheon Valhalla Powdercats Valkyr Adventures North Shore Rescue Team Society Big Red Cats Whistler Heli-skiing Whitecap Parks Canada Canadian Mountain Holidays White Grizzly Cat Skiing Yamnuska Mountain Adventures • Banff/Yoho/Kootenay • Adamants White Wilderness Heliskiing National Parks • Bobbie Burns Highways, Railways, Buildings, • Glacier National Park • Bugaboos Non-Mechanized Wilderness Forestry & Construction Ops • Jasper National Park • Cariboos Guiding 6 Point Engineering • Waterton Lakes National • Galena ACMG Training and Assessment • Kemano Park • Gothics Program Alpine Safety Consultants The Sharp End • K2 alpinism.com • Boralex Jamie Creek Valemount & Area Recreation • McBride Altus Mountain Guides • Innergex Pemberton Development Association • Monashees American Mountain Guides • Innergex SWBC • Nomads Association Alpine Solutions Avalanche Snowmobile Wilderness • Revelstoke Assiniboine Lodge Services Guiding • Valemount Auberge de montagne des Chic-Chocs Downie Timber Carl Kuster Mountain Park Cariboo Snowcat Skiing Battle Abbey Dynamic Avalanche Consulting Ltd. Great Canadian Tours Chatter Creek Boulder Hut Adventures • Mica SledGolden Chic-Chac Burnie Glacier Chalet BC Ministry of Transportation & Toby Creek Adventures Crescent Spur CAA – Industry Training Program Infrastructure Eagle Pass HeliSki CAPOW! • Bear Pass Fernie Wilderness Adventures Coast Mountain Guides • Central

For more information on the InfoEx program or any of the other programs and services offered by the Canadian Avalanche Association, please contact us at 1-250-837-2435 or visit us at www.avalancheassociation.ca. Revised May, 2019 Steve Kroschel Steve