{"id":771764,"date":"2026-03-10T05:09:34","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T12:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/?post_type=blog&#038;p=771764"},"modified":"2026-03-13T13:46:57","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T20:46:57","slug":"inside-jackson-holes-map-driven-mission-to-reduce-avalanche-risk","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/blog\/inside-jackson-holes-map-driven-mission-to-reduce-avalanche-risk","title":{"rendered":"How Jackson Hole Turned 50 Years of Avalanche Data into a Live Operational System"},"author":671,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"sync_status":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","castos_file_data":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[],"tags":[493395,493392,283482,137952,170262],"industry":[],"esri-blog-category":[478472],"esri_blog_department":[478172],"class_list":["post-771764","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-avalanche","tag-risk-mitigation","tag-skiing","tag-weather","tag-wyoming","esri-blog-category-resilience","esri_blog_department-mapping"],"acf":{"video_source":"","video_start":"","video_stop":"","short_description":"Learn how Jackson Hole Ski Patrol uses GIS to manage avalanches, track incidents, and protect skiers across 2,500 acres of expert terrain.","pdf":{"host_remotely":false,"file":"","file_url":""},"flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"sidebar","layout":"standard","image_reference":null,"image_reference_figure":"","spotlight_image":null,"section_title":"","spotlight_name":"","position":"Right","content":"Jackson Hole Mountain Resort\u2019s ski patrol uses Earth Analytic\u2019s SmartMountain platform to run operations. On mitigation days, when new snow demands avalanche mitigation, the system becomes the backbone of predawn safety work.\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Key Takeaways:<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>The resort publishes its avalanche data to the Bridger-Teton Avalanche Center\u2019s public database, letting all skiers understand risks.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>The ski patrol maps each explosive charge to the avalanche it produced, giving forecasters cause-and-effect data across every storm cycle.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>A single spatial workflow follows an injury from a radio call on the mountain to signed drug-administration records in the clinic, replacing fragmented paper processes.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>","snippet":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jackson Hole Mountain Resort has recorded every significant avalanche since the early 1970s. For decades, this meant boxes of handwritten paperwork\u2014notebooks filled by forecasters who understood that what happened on the mountain would matter to future ski patrollers trying to predict daily dangers.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe culture here has always been about meticulous recordkeeping,\u201d said Mike Rheam, who leads avalanche hazard reduction for Jackson Hole Ski Patrol and forecasts for the Bridger-Teton Avalanche Center. \u201cSomebody might want to do a research project on something we haven\u2019t even thought of yet. The records have to be there.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More than 17,000 of those slides can now be explored in 3D on a map.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The terrain demands it. Jackson Hole covers 2,500 acres with a vertical drop of 4,139 feet and has received more than 240 inches of snow at the summit this season\u2014more than double Colorado resorts like Telluride and Vail with similar expert terrain. Corbet\u2019s Couloir drops 20 feet into a steep chute. From the Bridger Gondola, a steady line of skiers hikes towards the Headwall cliffs. Before each patroller heads out to prepare the mountain, the dispatcher tests their avalanche beacon: Is it beeping? Then they go to work.<\/p>"},{"acf_fc_layout":"gallery","gallery_images":[771773,771765,771766]},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That work is now tracked in SmartMountain, a suite of geographic information system (GIS) applications. What began as avalanche risk mitigation now also manages ski patrol dispatch, missing persons, and injury response. The paper is gone. The map is the operating record\u2014every condition observed, every action taken, documented with coordinates and time stamps that can be queried long after the snow melts.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<h3><strong>Reading the Snowpack<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On February 12, patroller Scott Matthews read conditions aloud to the crew. The previous day brought the largest 24-hour snowfall of the season\u2014the first significant storm after 30 dry days. Southwest winds were gusting nearly 40 miles per hour. Slabs up to two feet expected in unskied areas. This was an avalanche mitigation day.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was also the last day of preparations before the Kings &amp; Queens of Corbet\u2019s competition\u2014an annual event where spectators gather in Tensleep Bowl, accessible only through expert terrain. That Valentine's Day weekend, patrollers prepared the area so a crowd could safely watch the best freeride skiers in the world drop in. A couple\u2014Tristen \"Pants\" Lilly and Piper Kunst\u2014fittingly were crowned.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The snow and the terrain make the contest possible. The Teton Range rises abruptly from the valley floor with no foothills to slow incoming weather. Pacific storms hit the range head-on, forcing moist air upward\u2014a process called orographic lift\u2013dropping it as snow. The summit regularly exceeds 400 inches in a full season. The same geography that creates steep terrain keeps it loaded.<\/p>"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<h3><em>What happens next unfolds in the hour before the lifts turn. The video below captures a February control day at Jackson Hole \u2014 the pre-dawn briefing, the deployment of remote explosive systems across the mountain's start zones, and the moment patrol logs the results in SmartMountain. Watch how the map becomes a living record in real time: each shot entered, each avalanche drawn, each outcome color-coded and pushed to the repository before the first skier steps on the tram.<\/em><\/h3>"},{"acf_fc_layout":"kaltura","video_id":"1_aem1fnf5","time":false,"start":0,"stop":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This season\u2019s snowpack tells a layered story. Warm temperatures through November and December brought rain to high elevations, forming a dense ice crust. Big avalanches followed. A subsequent storm arrived warm and gradually cooled. \u201cWe had good bonding of the new snow, so we kind of put that ice layer to bed,\u201d said Kevin Brazell, an avalanche hazard reduction specialist. \u201cIt\u2019s down in the pack and we\u2019re not too worried about it. It will probably reawaken in the spring.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Deeper, faceted layers\u2014sugary, cohesionless snow formed during dry spells\u2014remain the persistent concern. When enough mass builds on top, it can collapse. \u201cYou can\u2019t really be a good avalanche forecaster if you don\u2019t have your head in it all the time,\u201d Rheam said. \u201cThe only way to have that knowledge is to be thinking about it from the first snowflake in the fall.\u201d<\/p>"},{"acf_fc_layout":"gallery","gallery_images":[771771,771770,771772]},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<h3 style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Charges, Polygons, and Color-Coded Dots<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Before patrollers head out, Brazell sits at a console operating remote exploders\u2014automated systems that deliver charges ranging from 10 to 35 pounds onto avalanche-prone slopes. \u201cNobody is out there right now, and I\u2019m able to mitigate the slope from here,\u201d he said. Automation replaced the artillery the resort used for decades, until expansion eliminated the lines of fire. \u201cWe lost targets,\u201d Brazell said. \u201cToo many new buildings and lifts in the way.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Explosives are prepped in the staging room, loaded onto the tram car, and deployed from designated positions. Forty patrollers head out in teams of two. Some charges are thrown by hand from clifftops along routes mapped as layers in the system.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After mitigation, every patroller logs what happened. Rheam called it the \u201c100 workers, 100 ways\u201d problem\u2014some patrollers are technical, others less so. The form has to work for all of them. Each patroller selects their route, marks explosive placements on the map, and if an avalanche resulted, draws the extent of the slide\u2013how deep it broke, how far it ran. The system calculates vertical fall and slab width from terrain data.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That link between charge and consequence is the system\u2019s core value. On the map, color-coded dots tell the day\u2019s story: red means the explosive triggered an avalanche; black means it didn\u2019t; yellow means weather obscured the result. \u201cWe can use this tool to look at a period of time in a storm cycle and make sure we\u2019re getting the activity we expect,\u201d Rheam said, pointing to the large path\u2014the biggest slide at the resort this season, triggered by a snowcat working above it.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At day\u2019s end, forecasters review every entry, verify sizes, correct mistakes, and push cleaned data to a permanent repository. Significant events get flagged for training or investigation. The system also serves patrollers on days off\u2014pull up the avalanche outlines, understand what you missed before stepping back into it.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<h3 style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Mountain to Clinic to Public Record<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SmartMountain covers end-to-end patrol operations. When someone is injured, the process starts with rough information over the radio\u2014approximate age, location, complaint. A pin goes on the map. The nearest patroller arrives and updates the form. If care is accepted, the form follows the patient from slope to clinic, where staff add identification, vitals, drug administration records with signatures at every level, and a narrative of what happened. The same system tracks rope-line violations with photos and repeat-offender histories, out-of-bounds incidents, and missing persons\u2014down to jacket color and last known contact with family.<\/p>"},{"acf_fc_layout":"gallery","gallery_images":[771768,771774,771788,771787,771791]},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All this data stays internal. But with avalanche records, Jackson Hole takes an unusual approach.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The resort merges avalanche activity with the Bridger-Teton Avalanche Center\u2019s database, making resort explosive results visible to the public. \u201cEverything\u2019s transparent here,\u201d said Rheam. \u201cWe do our best to mitigate the avalanche hazard. We can\u2019t reduce it 100 percent. So we\u2019re letting the public know the hazards exist.\u201d The partnership dates to the 1970s, when two young men died on Jackson Peak and the community recognized the need for backcountry forecasting.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The transparency has practical value. Backcountry travelers use the resort\u2019s explosive results to calibrate their own risk. When a 35-pound charge triggers a significant slide on a slope that\u2019s been mitigated all season, it says something about what\u2019s waiting on slopes that haven\u2019t been touched.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The database that started with handwritten observations in the 1970s now tracks a lost child\u2019s jacket color and links a charge detonated at dawn to the avalanche it produced. Fifty years of institutional memory, mapped and searchable, used every day by the people responsible for safety on one of North America\u2019s most demanding mountains.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Learn more about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/en-us\/capabilities\/operational-intelligence\/get-started\">GIS components that combine to deliver operational intelligence<\/a>.<\/p>"},{"acf_fc_layout":"sidebar","layout":"standard","image_reference":null,"image_reference_figure":"","spotlight_image":null,"section_title":"","spotlight_name":"","position":"Center","content":"<h3 style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>SmartMountain\u2014The Technology Behind the Map<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SmartMountain is built by Earth Analytic on Esri\u2019s ArcGIS platform. The system uses ArcGIS Experience Builder as its primary interface, with ArcGIS Survey123 smart forms handling field data collection\u2014from avalanche observations to clinic intake. Dashboards provide real-time operational views of dispatch status, clinic activity, and daily explosive results, while 3D scene views let forecasters examine terrain and avalanche paths with depth.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Automated geoprocessing scripts calculate vertical fall, slab width, and explosive-to-avalanche associations from terrain data, reducing manual entry for patrollers. Data flows from a staging layer through supervisor review to a permanent repository, creating a spatial record searchable across 50 years of avalanche history.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The platform is scalable. Originally developed with Jackson Hole and Taos Ski Valley, SmartMountain\u2019s avalanche, dispatch, and risk modules now serve more than 20 resorts and heliskiing operations, including remote areas of Alaska.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Each deployment is configured for local needs. Jackson Hole pushes avalanche results to the Bridger-Teton Avalanche Center\u2019s independent system, reducing duplication. Other resorts integrate weather feeds from client-owned stations and third-party aggregators, like Synoptic, or connect snow pit profile tools like Propagation Labs\u2019 Snow Scope through API calls. This flexibility\u2014combining real-time data sources with decades of historical records\u2014gives each resort command of their own location intelligence.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The platform combines spatial analytics to model terrain, explore avalanche history, and forecast weather conditions in a single view.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Learn more at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.earthanalytic.com\/smartmountain\/\">smartmountain.earthanalytic.com<\/a><\/p>","snippet":""}],"references":null},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.9 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Inside Jackson Hole\u2019s Mission to Reduce Avalanche Risk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Learn how Jackson Hole uses GIS to manage avalanches, track incidents, and protect skiers across 2,500 acres of expert terrain.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, 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