A becoming and touching tribute to lifetime of Doug Abromeit (1948-2013) by The Mates of the Idaho Panhandle Avalanche Middle who’ve began every of the previous 10 winters by providing an avalanche scholarship within the identify of the Sandpoint, Idaho native.
The scholarship gives one recipient admission to a Degree 1 Avalanche Course carried out by the Idaho Panhandle Avalanche Middle. The appliance course of consists of an written essay now not than 400 phrases that must be submitted by December sixth, so for those who or anybody you recognize is please get to work.
Cheers to the life and occasions of Doug Abromeit. Discover submission info beneath.
About The Doug Abromeit Avalanche Scholarship:
Yearly for the previous 10 years, the Mates of the Idaho Panhandle Avalanche Middle celebrates the work and lifetime of Doug Abromeit (1948-2013) by beginning the winter season with the Doug Abromeit Avalanche Scholarship. Doug was a local of Sandpoint, Idaho. The scholarship is meant to additional avalanche training and consciousness for these in our forecast area of North Idaho, Jap Washington, and Western Montana.
What: The Scholarship will present one recipient admission to a Degree 1 Avalanche Course carried out by the Idaho Panhandle Avalanche Middle.
Who: These concerned with backcountry snowboarding, snowboarding, snowmobiling, mountaineering, or snowshoeing are the supposed teams. Candidates should be between the ages of 14 and 24.
How: To use, write an essay now not than 400 phrases explaining why you have to be chosen to attend the Degree 1 Avalanche Course and the way you’ll use this training to advertise avalanche consciousness.
When: Essays should be submitted by December 6, 2024. Please embrace your identify, age, mailing deal with and a telephone quantity. Hardcopy essays will be mailed to:
Sandpoint Ranger District
Attn: Kevin Davis
1602 Ontario St.
Sandpoint, ID. 83864
Digital variations, pdf or doc information please, will be emailed to kevin.davis2@usda.gov. The Scholarship winner will probably be introduced mid-December. Winners will attend the Degree 1 Avalanche Course in 2025. Dependents below the age of 18 will want written parental consent to attend.
To Donate: To donate to the Doug Abromeit Avalanche Scholarship make checks payable to the Mates of the Idaho Panhandle Avalanche Middle (FIPAC), notice that funds are for Abromeit Scholarship. Mail checks to:
Mates of IPAC
PO Field 405
Ponderay, ID. 83852
About Doug Abromeit:
Doug managed to land the most effective, and most revered jobs the U.S. Forest Service needed to supply when he grew to become a Snow Ranger at Alta within the mid 1980’s.
He had gotten the job although he was an outsider, with unknown or at finest restricted expertise within the avalanche world. It wasn’t going to be simple, moving into his new position, because the moderately hard-core native avalanche group didn’t all the time readily settle for outsiders. This considerably xenophobic conduct was demonstrated on his first day at work, when his new boss, the legendary Binx Sandahl, mentioned to him, “Preserve your mouth shut, and your eyes and ears open, and also you simply would possibly survive”.
Doug did survive, and was shortly accepted by the locals. Throughout his time in Little Cottonwood Canyon, he got here to be regarded above all, as a “Good-guy”, somebody who was keen to do no matter was wanted, and who may work with nearly anybody, with a purpose to get the job accomplished.
Additionally, due to his nice demeanor and “like-ability”, nobody appeared keen to sentence him too harshly, or stay offended with him for very lengthy, even when it was apparent he had screwed-up. Due to that, he was given the nickname of “The Teflon Snow Ranger”. It appeared to suit.
Doug was somebody you needed to work with, somebody whose crew you needed to be on. He appeared to have remarkably good perception when it got here to understanding individuals, and methods to get them to work collectively. He was somebody who knew methods to hear, and was fair-minded and empathetic. These innate abilities made him a pure chief, and contributed in no small half I’m certain, to his success.
A month or so after his arrival in Alta, there was a moderately important winter storm and avalanche cycle, with a variety of massive avalanches, a few of which got here near hitting buildings, and others that crossed the canyon street whereas it was open, certainly one of which had hit two automobiles. After the storm was over and issues had settled down, I bear in mind him saying that he now understood that Little Cottonwood Canyon was no atypical place to work, and that his new job was one the place errors or errors of judgment may have dire penalties. I think about his earlier expertise as a Smoke Jumper helped put together him to cope with all that.
Notable accomplishments; USFS Snow Ranger, Alta, Utah. USFS Snow Ranger, Ketchum, Idaho. Director, Sawtooth Avalanche Middle. Director, USFS Nationwide Avalanche Middle. Chairman, Avalanche Artillery Customers of North America Committee (AAUNAC).
And maybe essentially the most notable of all; thought-about by practically everybody to be a really good individual.
