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Avalanche Aware, 2nd: The Essential Guide to Avalanche Safety

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Avalanche Aware, 2nd: The Essential Guide to Avalanche Safety Book Description

Learn the most common circumstances that cause avalanches, how to recognize if conditions are stable enough to allow safe travel, and how to avoid being the trigger that causes a potentially fatal snowslide.
Packed with expert advice, Avalanche Aware is the essential guide for safe and enjoyable winter travel in the mountains.
This guide is perfect for: skiers snowboarders mountaineers snowmobilers
Featuring:
A checklist of essential equipment
Warning signs of avalanche hazard
Simple tests to determine snowpack stability
Rescue techniques for yourself and others

The concise and simple text explains the dangers associated with avalanches and how to avoid them. Revised to included information regarding the new digital avalanche transceivers and the changes in search patterns these have enabled, changes in terminology, and a small section on the hot topic of heuristics, which relate to psychological traps (i.e., decisions based on experience and not necessarily an objective assessment of the existing conditions).

John Moynier has contributed to Avalanche Aware, 2nd: The Essential Guide to Avalanche Safety as an author. Living in the High Sierra of California since 1978, John Moynier is a freelance writer and photographer who works as a certified ski mountaineering guide, serves as an avalanche forecaster for the eastern Sierra region, and is a member of the American Association of Avalanche Professionals (AAAP). He regularly teaches avalanche courses and oversees the Mammoth Lakes Area's community avalanche awareness program.


Publisher: Falcon Press Publishing
Author: John Moynier,
Edition Number: 2
Language: English
ISBN: 0762738030
EAN: 9780762738038
No. of Pages: 104
Publish Date: 2006-10-31
Binding: Paperback
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The book Avalanche Aware, 2nd: The Essential Guide to Avalanche Safety by John Moynier, (author) is published or distributed by Falcon Press Publishing [0762738030, 9780762738038]. This particular edition was published on or around 2006-10-31 date. Avalanche Aware, 2nd: The Essential Guide to Avalanche Safety has Paperback binding and this format has 104 number of pages of content for use. The printed edition number of this book is 2. This book by John Moynier, is written in English language.
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