Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 00:44:12 -0800 (PST)
To: csac-updates@csac.org


We've been hard at work keeping the site updated and working bit by bit on
a few new things. Here is a very brief note on a couple of new things to
check out on the website:

A couple weeks ago we published a new edition of "The Avalanche Gazette",
see the link on the home page. This newsletter/journal is new this year
and has been going quite well with contributions from many professionals
around the world. Each issue includes a tabulation of incidents to date
for the season (with details left for the website). We are currently able
to list accurate tabulations for Switzerland, Scotland and the US. Maybe
in the third issue we'll add to this.

We now have Nalgene water bottles with our popular "Skiing Skeleton" logo
printed on them. There is a link on the home page, or go to the store.
Buying bottles and/or shirts helps support our work, and we need all the
support we can get!

The most frequently updated section right now is the Incidents section.
There are growing "loose ends" which we'll clean up when things slow down,
but for the most part we've been up to date within a few days on all
fatalities we know of. Sometimes we update this info much later when
better information becomes available. To be notified of everything that is
updated as it happens you can join our incidents update list, as long as
you are a contributor to the project.

That's it for now. This ones brief because we are truly swamped keeping up
with the project right now, but we wanted to let you know about these new
items and to remind you to check in once in a while to keep up to date on
avalanche related information.

Play safe!

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