That electronics can interfere with avalanche transceivers was already known by the more experienced riders. But not every freerider knows that it is not wise to carry for example your cell phone, walkie talkie or GoPro close to your avalanche transceiver. On the ISSW (International Snow Science Workshop) 2014 researchers Ilari Dammert and Erwin Meister …
Read more Effects of electronics on your avalanche transceiver
We are looking to develop a product for backcountry users that will solve a need in avalanche safety.
Read more Avalanche Safety Equipment Survey
This troubled snowpack is not isolated to Golden, be safe and assume it applies to you area.
Read more Tuck in your tail in the Backcountry
A major responsibility of a public avalanche forecaster is to look at the weather forecast and assess how it will impact the snowpack and avalanche activity. Another part of the job is to look at forecast weather and assess how it might tie in with human behaviour. I’ve got some thoughts on this weekend’s avalanche …
Read more Developing Avalanche Scenario
The following photos were taken on Tuesday, November 11 on Eagle Pass Mountain in the Monashees near Revelstoke.
Read more Early Season Avalanches
Avalanche Engineers is the story of two scientists who delve deep into the mysteries of the snowpack to find out how a snowflake becomes an avalanche
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Wayne Flann’s Whistler Avalanche Blog shares topics on Avalanches in Whistler, the Sea to Sky Corridor and around the Globe. If you are a frequent skier, rider, heli-dropper or sledder who frequents any part of the Sea to Sky backcountry, this is the man you should be listening too when it comes to your safety. …
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Imagine if there were zero avalanche deaths each year—on average, that would mean 28 lives saved in the United States. A group of avalanche safety professionals is making bold attempts to drastically reduce avalanche fatalities in this country and to get there, they’re looking in an unlikely place: a Swedish automobile law from the 1990s. …
Read more American Avalanche Association – A Goal of Zero
Say goodbye to the Canadian Avalanche Centre. Say hello to Avalanche Canada. The Canadian Avalanche Centre announced its new name and logo at the International Snow Science Workshop in Banff on Oct. 2. The change has been in the works for a year and is designed to give the organization a distinct brand from the …
Read more Introducing Avalanche Canada
Are you questioning if this is going to be a good snow year? Is this the year for an epic heli-skiing holiday? You could be looking and asking in all the wrong places. Apparently mother nature has the answer. Glen Wickstrom (Gus) of the village of Tompkins, Saskatchewan was a young onlooker as his dad …
Read more Pig Spleen Deep Snow Forcaster
Disturbing reports are coming out of Chile that JP Auclair and Andreas Fransson were killed in an avalanche near the border of Argentine while skiing for a new film project. They were climbing a couloir on Monte San Lorenzo when something above triggered the avalanche that took them all the way to the glacier 700 …
Read more JP Auclair dies in avalanche
Ken's book will help understand what really happened and reopen the question of why Rudi never took responsibility for his mistake.
Read more “Buried” by Ken Wylie
