A golden retriever puppy is in training to become Alyeska’s newest avalanche safety asset

Assistant ski patrol director Cody Burns is training Stormy, a 16-week-old Golden retriever, to be the next avalanche rescue dog at Alyeska Resort in Girdwood. Photographed on Thursday, Jan. 6, 2022.

When Stormy is fully trained, she will become a serious safety asset for Alyeska. Search and rescue dogs can smell someone buried by an avalanche even if they’re covered by feet of snow.An avalanche rescue dog “can clear a big search area in about 20 minutes, where it would take a probe line like two to three hours,” said Cody Burns, the assistant ski patrol director and Stormy’s handler.

He traveled to California a few months ago to meet a litter of puppies and brought Stormy home with him.Assistant ski patrol director Cody Burns and Stormy enter the First Aid Room at Alyeska. There have never been any avalanche injuries or deaths at Alyeska, said Ben Napolitano, the mountain marketing manager. The resort triggers avalanches so they happen in a controlled manner instead of being set off by skiers or falling naturally, Napolitano said.

The entire training process for an avalanche rescue dog can take years, but Burns hopes to get Stormy certified by the spring of 2023. There’s no national certification process, but some search and rescue organizations offer their own various levels of evaluation.A new Anchorage resident left Afghanistan after years assisting U.S. military. Now he’s helping others resettle in Alaska.

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