Social Media & Avalanche Safety
Social media has completely changed the landscape for sharing information about trips into the backcountry and avalanche safety.
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Category: Avalanche
Virtual Snow Science Workshop 2020
To keep the "Merging of Theory and Practice" happening the Virtual Snow Science Workshop 2020 will be live-streamed on October 4th - 6th, 2020, with international-calibre speaker sessions, panel discussions, and posters.
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BarryHeart 3.4 Firmware Update For Barryvox S and Barryvox
Mammut is rolling out new BarryHeart 3.4 Firmware updates for its industry-leading avalanche beacons, the Barryvox and Barryvox S.
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Land of Thundering Snow
The Virtual Museum of Canada is probing the history of snow avalanches and their impact on people and nature in Canada. Through historic records, photographs, recordings and artifacts, they are exploring stories of both technical success and tearful sorrow.
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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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Avalanche Forecast User Study Underway
The results of this research will offer important insight for making avalanche forecasts more effective and resonate better with all types of backcountry users.
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Avalanche Canada Shutting Down Forecasting for the Season
We feel it is essential that we work together and do what we can to avoid putting any extra load on our healthcare system at this time
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Free Avalanche Safety Tutorial
Atlas commented, "While you’re inside... we have offered up our online AST 1 course for free. Something to hopefully help you get more out of your next time in the mountains!!"
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Slackcountry: how do you prepare?
Ever question where those people with backpacks are headed when they duck under the rope at the resort? Beyond the resorts boundaries there's a popular zone called "slackcountry".
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Avalanche Canada: House of Cards
This problem has reared its ugly head in much of western Canada, with avalanches occurring in most of our forecasting regions
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Banff avalanche accident report from Adam Campbell
We hope that by sharing this that someone can learn something that may save them from enduring the horror that we, as well as our families and friends, the search and rescue crew, the first responders and the medical staff have endured.
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Glacier National Park needs 100% compliance!
These poachers endanger not only their own lives, other groups, and everyone traveling on the highway. People need to respect these closures and stop the poaching.
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