How Risky is Ski Cutting? features avalanche researcher Bruce Jamieson presenting findings from a survey of practitioners on the risk of ski cutting. Co-authored with Karl Birkeland, Mark Vesely, Ilya Storm, and John Stimberis, the study examines how avalanche professionals assess and manage the hazards of ski cutting in operational settings. The video provides valuable …
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This multifaceted package makes reading The Starting Zone a very different experience than reading a traditional book.
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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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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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A video to start discussion about how we rate avalanche size on the D-scale.
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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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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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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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