Who was it that said, “Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the other ones.” Mark Twain? Rather, Winston Churchill, just after…
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by Laura Maguire How we perceive risk and make decisions can be subject to flawed thinking and dangerous biases, but this is only one small…
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by Russ Costa This is a continuation from the Blue Ice avalanche from January 2019. You can find the accident report and my introduction…
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This is a continuation from the Blue Ice avalanche from January 2019. You can find the accident report and my introduction “Low Danger – Chapter…
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This is a continuation from the Blue Ice avalanche from January 2019. You can find the accident report and my introduction “Low Danger – Chapter…
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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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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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From Ed LaChapelle’s essay The Ascending Spiral in The Avalanche Review 24.1 (photo credit -Wilburn and Jean Pickett Photograph Collection, University of Utah Marriott library…
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