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Reading & Snow Avalanches

May 31st, 2013 * Comments(0)
X2-West Side Story on Kitzsteinhorn ©Jonna
X2-West Side Story on Kitzsteinhorn ©Jonna

A post on a local website provoked me into starting an assembly of a list of magazines and websites regularly writing about snow avalanches. To top it off I added a small section on snow & avalanche science resources for those with a curious mind.

The lists below are a broad mix with a bit of everything. Some offer very good writing, none very bad. Some are available completely free of charge, others require subscription to access even the basic features. And don’t forget there’s a lot to find on some websites of individual Avalanche Warning Services.

No guarantees these links won’t go broken at some point!

Print Magazines and Newsletters

Websites & Blogs with frequent snow avalanche themes

Snow & Avalanche Science

Avalanche videos part 3

May 05th, 2013 * Comments(0)

Because I prefer learning from mistakes made by other people.
see part 1 and part 2

even the pros get caught, sometimes they’re smart enough to share rather than glorify

and some awe inducing curiosities to finish it off

Avalanche videos part 2

May 02nd, 2013 * Comments(0)

Because I prefer learning from mistakes made by other people – another collection of snow avalanche videos found this winter season. See part 1 here. Definitely seeing the POV cam trend here as well. Can’t say I like it in general but in some cases it certainly makes it much clearer.

Starting with the video that every kid around saw at some point and that probably did the most damage to avalanche awareness and safety education.

A very nice self analysis of the sequence of decisions that led to the accident

Very lucky with the outcome considering the poor reactions of the group

The documentary accompanying the Pulitzer prize winning feature Snow Fall by NYTimes

If you thought Greece is all fun in the sun on the beach

Even the small ones can kill

sidecountry = backcountry, and in this case it involved innocent people

when a cornice collapses under you

Things don’t always end this way

and many more…

For a few seconds he thought he was ok, then a secondary slide took him into a terrain trap and 2m under

Not an avalanche but an amazing accident on its own

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