Grant Statham on How We Think About and Communicate Avalanche Hazard
Utah Avalanche Center Podcast
English - February 04, 2022 21:50 - 55 minutes - 25.5 MBWilderness Sports Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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In the winter of 2002-03, 24 people were killed in a pair of large avalanches in British Columbia. Those horrific tragedies spurred Canada’s national parks agency to find ways to better insure public safety in the winter mountains. That’s where Grant Statham comes in. An accomplished mountain guide and avalanche forecaster, Grant led the development of new safety systems and methods that have been implemented around the world, but curiously, not in the U.S. Grant joined us to talk how we think about avalanche hazard and how we communicate that risk to the public.