JACKSON HOLE, Wyo. — Bridger Teton Avalanche Center (BTAC) announced Frank Carus will stay on as director in a permanent capacity.
Carus was hired as acting director in November to replace the legendary Bob Comey. He has been working diligently all winter to learn the intricacies of the avalanche center including the numerous weather stations, and get up to speed on the center’s partnerships.
“I am looking forward to working with the great team assembled at the avalanche center and the foundation and to continue the impressive work that Bob and colleagues have done here,” Carus said.
Carus was the Mt. Washington Avalanche Center director from 2011- 2021 after a diverse early career supporting his climbing and skiing obsessions by guiding and building things out of wood. Carus put his degree in geography to use guiding climbs and ski mountaineering trips, or taking personal trips to the Alps, Andes, Patagonia, and the western States. He has worked for most every guide service in the Mount Washington Valley in the process, and did a summer in the Tetons guiding for Exum Guides as well.
Comey announced his retirement late last year after 28 years with BTAC.
“Bob Comey led the Bridger-Teton Avalanche Center during a rapidly changing time in technology from the transition of analog to digital weather instrumentation in the late 1990’s to the current website that presents a vast amount of information used by the public, avalanche professionals and the BTAC forecasters,” said former BTAC forecaster Chris McCollister. “During this time, Bob also found funding for, installed and maintained an array of remote weather stations which are a vital component to the daily avalanche advisories.”
