Avalanche Essentials: A Step-by-step System for Safety and Survival - Softcover

Tremper, Bruce

 
9781594857171: Avalanche Essentials: A Step-by-step System for Safety and Survival
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1594857172 ISBN 13: 9781594857171
Verlag: Mountaineers Books, 2013

Inhaltsangabe

Avalanche science stripped down to the basics -- the things you absolutely, positively must know before heading into the winter backcountry

  • Easy-to-understand safety tips and checklists to help anyone stay safer in avalanche terrain
  • Small, take-along resource to reference in the field and assist decision making
  • Companion to Staying Alive in Avalanche Terrain, the bestselling avalanche text in the U.S.

Winter athletes don't necessarily want to be snow scientists, but playing in avalanche country does require basic knowledge of the risks in order to stay safe. This new guide by renowned avalanche expert Bruce Tremper is simple, accessible, and offers just the basics -- an Everyman's guide to avalanche safety that won't overtax your average ski bums, but will keep them safe when they're going for 12 consecutive months of powder. Avalanche Essentials is for everyone who wants to learn the fundamentals of avalanche awareness, focusing on systems and checklists, step-by-step procedures, decision-making aids, visual terrain and weather cues, rescue techniques, gear, and more.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Bruce Tremper grew up skiing in the mountains of western Montana, where his father taught him the basics of avalanches at the age of ten. He was a member of the Junior National Ski Team and the US Ski Team Talent Squad; in 1973, he was NCAA Division Downhill Champion. Bruce's professional avalanche experience began in 1977 when he did avalanche control for Bridger Bowl Ski Area. He later was director of avalanche control at Big Sky Ski Area, an avalanche forecaster for the Alaska Avalanche Center, and director of the Forest Service Utah Avalanche Center where he worked for almost thirty years.

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Verlag
Mountaineers Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2013
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1594857172
ISBN 13 
9781594857171
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
189
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