Know Before You Go

The Know Before You Go program brings avalanche awareness and backcountry safety to classrooms and organizations around the world. Having partnered with Academy Award winners, Sherpas Cinemas, KBYG launched a full rebrand of their course as well as a feature documentary, To the Hills and Back (see below). I was the lead developer on the project. I worked closely with the lead designer at Objective as well as the client to refine the vision and bring the site to life.

Having worked with Svelte on some personal projects I felt that the framework was both mature and robust enough to be used in production. Svelte comes with a lot of handy features out of the box such as data stores, animations and SSR which made some of the features unique to the project much easier. KBYG featured more animation then I had ever worked with before and there were instances where GreenSock was an absolute necessity but in most cases I found Svelte’s built in animation library did the trick.

Again I partnered with Lance for some of the animated transitions on the home page, almost everything else was my own hand.

The project was finished by the launch date of October 2022 but I have continued to support it as needed.