Avalanche Canada Honours Dr. Bruce Jamieson
Dr. Bruce Jamieson has made invaluable contributions to public avalanche safety over his 40-year career.
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Bruce Jamieson’s Avalanche Research Saving Lives
Understanding why, how and when avalanches are likely to occur is critical to keeping people safe in Canada’s mountains. Communicating safety tips and risk updates to skiers, snowboarders and snowmobilers is essential to saving lives.
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Skier triggered Avalanche Animation
Avalanche guru Bruce Jamieson created this animation for avalanche educators at the Colorado Snow Avalanche Workshop who requested an animation of human triggering.
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How Risky is Ski Cutting?
Here is a new video featuring highlights of a new paper on the risks associated with ski cutting by Bruce Jamieson.
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What is the Risk of Riding in Avalanche Terrain?
These numbers come from Bruce Jamieson’s 2009 ISSW publication where he estimates the risk and compares it with similar estimates from Werner Munter from Switzerland.
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Snow Nomad – An Avalanche Memoir
From bombs to bombillas, Snow Nomad: An Avalanche Memoir, chronicles the fifty seasons author Alan Dennis worked in the avalanche patch, travelling between Canada, New Zealand, Scotland, and Argentina.
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Avalanche Canada: The Crust That Never Dies
It’s here to stay… The early December crust/facet persistent weak layer (PWL) is now a well-established feature of this season’s snowpack. The atmospheric river events that created this layer were unprecedented, in terms of their intensity. But the resulting layer is not. We’ve seen these “rain on snow” events before, and those experiences provide us …
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What works for five experienced avalanche professionals
Bruce Jamieson, Canada’s avalanche guru, has put together a short video that we recommend all backcounty users should watch. Bruces’s video conducts interviews with five very experienced avalanche professionals. He engages the professsionals to define the backcountry habits that work for them. The professionaals include; Marc Piché, Penny Goddard, John Buffery, Sylvia Forest and Larry …
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Rating avalanche size on the D-scale
A video to start discussion about how we rate avalanche size on the D-scale.
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Solar induced dry slab avalanche study
A Bruce Jamieson video for avalanche practitioners and advanced recreationalists on dry slab avalanches. Dry slabs are a poorly understood phenomenon that has surprised – sometimes tragically – many experienced people in the backcountry. Bruce Jamieson has dedicated his life to the study of avalanches and saving lives, read more here. Dry snow slab avalanche …
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