If you trigger an avalanche when just standing in the middle of the avalanche path, have almost no chance to escape off the moving slab. Trigger an avalanche. That is …
We are off to avalanche camp where you have to work and toil, learning about avalanches by doing and doing and doing over and over until it’s second nature. Here, …
Persistent Slab Avalanches are on a weak layer buried by one or two storms or by wind deposited snow which produces after storms. With surface-hoar weak layers, can run on …
How dangerous is the snowpack? You now know the basics regarding probability the likelihood of triggering. So, just because you can easily trigger an avalanche does not necessarily mean the …
Avalanches are often larger and more destructive than they seem from looking at the amount of snow in the initial slab fracture because they entrain all the loose snow in …
Snow temperature near avalanche. Beginning students tend to focus too much attention on air heat, possibly because it’s such an easy number to feel and measure. But it’s snow temperature …
Avalanche Snow Grain Bonds at the Slab Boundaries. Which slab boundary is the most important? Does the strength of the slab hold it in place through bonding around its edges, …
The pros snow travel a well trodden path of training, mentorship, procedures, checklists, rituals, and step by tep decision making in daily group meetings. And to further push the arrow …