Today’s guests are both professional guides and teach professional level avalanche courses through Silverton Avalanche School aka SAS. Together they founded SASTAC to provide alpine and arctic training for tactical teams.

Josh Jesperson (joshj@sastac.org) is a Navy SEAL and holds the record for fastest time to ski all of the Colorado 14ers.

Michael Ackerman aka Ack (ackerman@sastac.org), is a professional avalanche instructor for SAR, ski patrol, mountain tactical and many other professional organizations.