[VIDEO] Snow Pit Basics with IFMGA Guide Evan Stevens [arve url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcXogVHecFQ"] AvyBrains | January 19, 2023 Likes Tweets 1 Comment
Avalanche Safety – Digging a Snow Pit | The 5 Ws of Snowpack Test Decision Making “Take a deck of cards – half are black, half are red; how much would you wager that the top card is red? That’s about risk. Here’s a deck of cards – at least one is black, at least one is red; how much would you wager that the top card is red? That’s about ambiguity.” – Robert M. Sapolsky, […] Avalanche Guest Author | November 12, 2021 3 Comments
VIDEO: How To Dig a Snow Pit | by Bruce Tremper Bruce Tremper is a legend. He literally wrote the book on Avalanche safety: “How to Stay Alive in Avalanche Terrain.” In this video, he shows us how to dig a snow pit. Please pay attention. As head forecaster at the Utah Avalanche Center, Bruce Tremper has dug more snow pits than he can count. We caught up with Bruce in Grizzly Gulch and he walked us through the steps of properly digging a pit and identifying the weak snow layers that could potentially trigger an avalanche. […] Avalanche SnowBrains | February 6, 2014 0 Comments
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