
What is an avalanche bulletin?
An avalanche bulletin is a publication by the avalanche warning services that contains detailed information on the current state of the snow cover snowpack, its development for the next day
Can I ski this line today or is it perhaps too dangerous after all? How do I even know where and whether there is avalanche danger or not? These are precisely the questions we address in this document, with the aim of increasing risk awareness among freeriders.
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An avalanche bulletin is a publication by the avalanche warning services that contains detailed information on the current state of the snow cover snowpack, its development for the next day
Orientation is the ability to find your way around the terrain. This means that you know both where you are and where you need to go.
The typical skier avalanche is around 50-70 meters wide and has about three times the flow length. The fracture depth (also called break-off depth) is on average around half a
All electronic devices and metal objects generate electromagnetic fields that can massively interfere with avalanche transceivers. If an electronic device is in the immediate vicinity of the avalanche transceiver in
Most rescue blankets have a silver and a gold side. A common misconception is that one of these sides is supposed to keep you warm and the other cool. Unfortunately,
As soon as the first snow falls, the motto is: grab your skis or board and make the first tracks of the season in the snow on the glacier or in the backcountry. Those who
More than half of all people involved in avalanche incidents suffer no or only minor injuries. Around 32 percent of the people involved are seriously injured, and the death rate of people who are buried (regardless of the burial depth) is around 13 percent.
Snow is a form of frozen water. It consists of many small ice crystals that form into snowflakes.
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