In 2012, five icons of backcountry skiing, Ingrid Backstrom, Jackie Paaso, Michelle Parker,  Elyse Saugstad, Lel Tone and philanthropist and yogi Sherry McConkey, decided to start a new approach to teaching avalanche courses. Founded on the premise of female-specific snow safety events that were frictionless and affordable, SAFE AS clinics came to fruition and has since educated over 140...