Drew's Blogcast - "Low Danger"
Utah Avalanche Center Podcast
English - April 05, 2019 04:07 - 1 hour - 34.2 MBWilderness Sports Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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On Saturday, January 5, the danger rating in the Salt Lake area went Low. As you'd expect, people got out after it. By the end of the day there were eight skier-triggered avalanches, with four people caught and carried in separate events, and one visit to the ER. In this episode, we put one of those accidents under the microscope and examine how the forecast affects decision making. Our guests: UAC forecaster Greg Gargne, backcountry skiers Vlad Pascu and Jackie Long, Professor Russ Costa, and researcher Laura Maguire.