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Thursday, March 18, 2021
GO! magazine — A&E in Northeast Oregon
Paintings for avalanche awareness
Nicole Freshley’s ‘AVY SAVVY’ print sales help support the Wallowa Avalanche Center
By Lisa Britton
For EO Media Group
ENTERPRISE — Nicole Fresh-
ley discovered skiing when she
moved to Enterprise fi ve years ago.
These days, before she heads out to
explore deep snow in the backcoun-
try, she checks in with the Wallowa
Avalanche Center.
“Every time we go into the back-
country, we always check,” she said.
She’s never experienced an
avalanche.
And she wants to keep it that
way.
“The goal is to use your knowl-
edge of avalanche safety to avoid
it,” she said.
To support the work of the WAC,
Freshley is selling prints of her
paintings and will donate 50% of
the profi ts to the center.
She’s titled the collection “Avy
Savvy” and describes the paintings
as “limited edition archival prints
inspired by the freedom and danger
of backcountry riding.”
Freshley, 31, has painted since
she was a child. She has no formal
training, and began selling her
work at the end of 2019 under the
name Magic Woodland Studio.
For the fundraiser, she has three
designs: “Anthony Lakes Powder
Storm” (far right), “Somewhere Out
There” and “Bluebird, Baby!” (on
the cover).
Freshley is selling 25 prints of
each design. There are three sizes
to choose when ordering.
To view and purchase prints,
visit her website at www.magic-
woodlandstudio.com/projects.
Although she grew up in the
Portland and Long Beach pen-
insula areas, Freshley said she’s
familiar with living in rural places
like Enterprise.
“In some ways, it was like coming
home,” she said.
It’s also where she fell in love
with skiing.
Nicole Freshley
“There’s such a cool and fun
skiing culture,” she said. “It really
spans all age groups.”
She started at the local ski hill
Ferguson Ridge, then she began
exploring what she calls “mild
backcountry.”
“If you want to push yourself,
getting a backcountry ski setup is
the way to go,” she said.
But safety is paramount.
She’s now taken the AIARE
Magic Woodland Studio/Contributed Images
“Anthony Lakes Powder Storm” by Nicole Freshley, of Enterprise, is one of
three prints in her “Avvy Savvy” collection on sale to benefi t the Wallowa
Avalance Center.
(American Institute for Avalanche
Research and Education) level one
course through the WAC.
“It’s such a great resource to
have these courses available right
here where we recreate,” she said.
These safety courses and short
clinics about avalanche safety are
in addition to the center’s mission
to provide forecasts of avalanche
conditions in Eastern Oregon, as
well as observations submitted
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The nonprofi t Wallowa Ava-
lanche Center provides avalanche
forecasts and snowpack assess-
ments for Northeast Oregon, and
provides access to avalanche safety
education. To learn more about the
the Enterprise center, go to www.
wallowaavalanchecenter.org.
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stay distanced: we will
get through this.
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Sometimes, Freshley noted,
plans need to change due to unsafe
conditions.
“Recognize there will always be
another opportunity — today may
not be the day to go,” she said.
Her “Avy Savvy” paintings cap-
ture wintertime in the mountains,
whether that’s skiing at Anthony
Lakes Mountain Resort or explor-
ing fresh powder in the Wallowa
Mountains.
“It’s so quiet in the winter, and
so infrequently visited,” she said.
“You feel isolated, like you’re in a
secret world. It’s overwhelmingly
beautiful.”
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