Ian Fowler joined the Colorado Avalanche Information Center in 2021. He grew up in the avalanche and ski mecca of England where a deep snowpack was 6" and the ski club would park an old tractor on the hillside to create a rope tow. Travels as a kid taught him about the wind slabs in Scotland and the wide-open bowls of the European Alps. He has worked in New Zealand, the Alps, Canada, Alaska, and Colorado as a ski patroller, mountain guide, and avalanche educator. During this period he gained his IFMGA Mountain Guide Certification through the American Mountain Guide Association. Ian moved to Colorado in 2008 and started patrolling at Eldora. He lives in Louisville with his wife and two daughters.