I’m looking for better strategies and info for doing ski tours on glaciers—without falling thru into a hidden crevasse.
The problems I’ve run into are that crevasse risk is tricky and complicated, and the careful detailed analyses of crevasse risk I’ve found so far in English are focused on alpine climbing, not skiing.
(A) Do you have a pointer to some helpful ideas or resources in English for skiers? book or web link?
French or German would also be helpful to me. (I’m open to resources in other languages, but I’d need lots of help understanding of translating them.)
(B) I tried to write down some ideas + strategies. Even though I’m not any sort of expert on crevasse risk. Here’s
my attempt on crevasse risk strategies for skiers
It’s messy and complicated. It gives more alternatives and theories than advice. Likely has several mistakes, some of them might be serious and dangerous. And it’s rather long.
If you’re looking for a sound straightforward strategy for the crevasse thing: That’s not it.
What I try to say there that I haven’t seen before:
* how crevasse risk is like avalanche risk
* red light - yellow light - green light indicators
* list of different alternative strategies, with pros + cons of each
* specific tests which could be performed out on the snow
* approaches for getting prior evidence that a crevasse zone is well-covered or not
My goal in writing it was to get somebody sufficiently irritated to go find the real expert resource (which I missed so far) about crevasse strategy for skiers, and tell me where to find it too.
Or to get one of the real experts on crevasse risk so alarmed by the misinformation, that she or he will be provoked to do the work of carefully writing the expert advice for skiers that we need. Or at least some experienced skiers will point out a couple of the more serious mistakes, and fill in some of the omissions—so I’ll know better for my own touring.
Looking forward to learning more.
Ken