Avalanche Avoidance

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Contents

1. Reading the Avalanche Bulletin
2. Understanding the Avalanche Bulletin
3. Avalanche Start Zones
4. Crown Locations
5. Slope Steepness
6. Measuring Slope Steepness
7. Slope Aspect
8. Route Planning
9. Reading Terrain I
10. Reading Terrain II
11. Reading Terrain III
12. Heuristic Traps
13. Conclusions

This presentation presents another aspect to not getting killed or injured by avalanches – not getting caught in one in the first place.

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Avalanche.org for their picture archive. The forum Telemarktips provided inspiration and useful comments on some of the photos shown. Frank Baumann, a geological engineer in British Columbia for the use of his photograph and many useful comments.

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