Mike Hattrup skiing the Idaho Express, GFT. photo: Doug Workman Two winters ago, my partner and I headed toward the Pine Hollow area in upper…
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Tom Kimbrough in the easy chair. Lupine Meadows, Grand Teton National Park It was my first season as an avalanche forecaster and I felt our…
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Avalanche travel decisions are about risk vs rewards and penalties – we use an assessment of hazard to choose how to satisfy our desires without…
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The Next Step BY STARR JAMISON, WITH INTERVIEWS WITH LAURA MCGLADREY AND DREW HARDESTY In the last few years, momentum has exponentially grown to promote…
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A piece of fiction: I was touring up in Mineral Fork of Big Cottonwood yesterday. Never liked it in there – spooky, full of ghosts. …
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Not long ago, I was invited to give a talk on any subject of my choice to a Level 3 avalanche class with the American…
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Salvation We were camped a few hundred yards beyond the perimeter of the Timber Carnival fairgrounds near Albany, Oregon. Lumberjacks competed in various events: speed…
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Some of the following is true. It was late January. Overcast and lightly snowing. No hint of wind. Temperatures in the low twenties and dropping in…
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What is your Level of Acceptable Risk? How did you determine this? Some will center-punch Superior on a CONSIDERABLE danger while others feel happy going to Powder Park…
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