Our Mission
Friends of the Sawtooth Avalanche Center (SAC) is a non-profit organization that provides over 50% of our local avalanche center’s annual funding. Our mission is to support the SAC and promote life-saving avalanche safety information, education and outreach throughout central Idaho. Join us in driving our mission forward, realizing our vision, and building the best avalanche center in the West. The Friends of SAC operate under 501 (c)(3) guidelines.
Why Donate?
The Friends provide over half of the Sawtooth Avalanche Center’s annual operating budget, and we couldn’t do it without YOUR support. Your donations help support our amazing forecast team who produce the fact-filled Daily Avalanche Forecasts we rely upon all winter for safe travel in the backcountry. You help pay for the ever-evolving and information-packed SAC website. And, your contributions help provide essential educational outreach to our community. Every donation, no matter the amount, is so important to helping us meet our mission, and every donation, no matter the amount, could save a life!
What's New
The Friends of the Sawtooth Avalanche Center (FSAC) and the Sawtooth Avalanche Center (SAC) are gearing up for a safe, fun and (hopefully) deep winter! Our forecast team is preparing for another winter of record-breaking backcountry recreational use as folks flock to the mountains seeking fresh air, wide open spaces, solitude and good turns. As witnessed last season, the pandemic added to the already fast-growing interest in backcountry recreation, making our job of providing quality, accessible and accurate avalanche advisories, mountain weather forecasts and avalanche education even more critical.
Through our annual fall fundraising campaign, grants and events, FSAC provides over 50% of our local avalanche center’s annual funding — without your support our area would have half the forecasters creating half the advisories for half the area we have come to rely on. For the safety of our community, this year we will not be hosting any in-person events making your contribution more important than ever!
Sincerely,
The Friends of the Sawtooth Avalanche Center
Upcoming Events
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Who We Are
Staff
Steph Eisenbarth Executive Director
Stacey Ward Education Coordinator
Amy DavidMedia Coordinator
Board Members
Steve Butler President
Ryan GuessVice President
Travis Vandenburgh Secretary
Erin Zell Treasurer
Bryan Baird Board Member
Megan StevensonBoard Member
WC Skooter Gardiner IIIBoard Member
Frank GouldBoard Member