Skills Day benefits Colorado avalanche center
"Rescuers" help each other out during an avalanche safety training class. Gazette file
The 10th Annual Beacon Bowl and Avalanche Awareness Day will be held Saturday at Arapahoe Basin.
Beacon Bowl entrants - professional and recreational divisions - compete in timed trials to find a buried beacon. Yes, there are prizes.
But even if you don't know a thing about avalanches or search and rescue, you can test out the latest avy gear, attend a clinic and learn more about avalanche safety.
There's also a raffle and silent and live auctions.
All proceeds go to the Colorado Avalanche Information Center, an invaluable source for Colorado's backcountry users.
Registration is $25 and includes a New Belgium beer, slice of pizza and raffle ticket. Register between 8 and 10 a.m. on the first floor of the A-Frame or between 10 a.m. and noon on the hill.
Raffle tickets will be available for purchase throughout the day. The silent auction begins at 3 p.m. and the apres ski party at 3:30 p.m. on the first floor of the A-Frame
Items to be raffled or sold at auction include:
A-Basin Shot Ski
Avalanche vs Canuck Club Level tickets
Ski Logik Skis – your choice
Brain Egan tickets
New Belgium cruiser bike
DU Hockey tickets with dinner and parking pass
BCA packs, probes and shovel
Hestra gloves – men’s and women’s
Lift Tickets to - Aspen Mountain, Eldora, Echo Mountain, Loveland, Monarch, Ski Cooper, Sunlight Mountain
Dillon movie tickets
$50 Dillon Dam Brewery certificates
$40 Arapahoe Café certificates
Bern gear
Columbia gear
Nuggets tickets
Salomon BBR skis
Snake River Saloon dinner
Ski goggles
Monarch Snow Cat Tour trip – includes dinner and hotel
Scarpa boots and trail running shoes
Dillon Water Taxi Ride
Smith gear
Watch for an avalanche safety story and photos by Out There's Scott Rappold - on the website Wednesday and in Thursday's Out There section of The Gazette.
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