Snow Sense: A Guide to Evaluating Snow Avalanche Hazard

ALASKA MTN SAFETY

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UPC:
9780964399402
Binding:
Paperback
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Publication Date:
5/23/1999
Author:
Jill A. Fredston;Doug Fesler
Language:
english
Edition:
5th
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Product Overview

Snow Sense is the best-selling, easiest to read, most informative avalanche safety book available. Intended for skiers, snowmachiners, snowboarders, climbers and others who work and play in avalanche country, Snow Sense is written to help backcountry travelers learn to recognize, evaluate, and avoid snow avalanche hazards.

Avalanche accidents do not happen by accident; they happen for particular reasons. Snow Sense addresses the critical terrain, snowpack, and weather variables that make it possible for a slope to avalanche along with the human factors that allow most accidents to happen. If you don't want to become an avalanche victim, read this book.