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MOUNTAINEERS BOOKS 9781594857171 Avalanche Essentials
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Manufacturer Part Number: 9781594857171
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 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.
Avalanche Essentials is intended for broader use by skiers, snowboarders, snowmobilers, hikers, climbers, and snowshoers. Because it steers clear of more complex topics (e.g., snow metamorphism), it's perfect for generalists as well as anyone who has studied avalanche safety and likes to keep a pocket reference while in potentially dangerous terrain.
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Customer Reviews
By Kindle Customer
Date: December 19, 2017
I loved how practical and easy to read this book is. Hire on all essentials in gear, anyone predictions and planning and survival planning an avi 1 course and this was great to read prior to course!
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[5 of 5 Stars!]
[5 of 5 Stars!]
By Mike
Date: June 12, 2017
Buy this book, read it and read it again each fall and winter
Rating: [5 of 5 Stars!]
[5 of 5 Stars!]
By Minh Chau
Date: May 08, 2017
I've taken the AIARE 1 class and read both Snow Sense and this book. The books complement each other. Snow Sense has chapters to cover snow metamorphosis but the material I felt was a bit disorganized for the first time reader (reading it a couple times again helped). This 34;Avalanche Essentials34; book has most of the important topics cover (except in depth snow metamorphosis), but other than that the materials were well structure and organized. I found myself being able to read this much faster and absorbed the materials better. The fonts, pictures and illustrations in this book are clearer/cleaner than Snow Sense. Also, I took the class and read Snow Sense first so by the time I got to this book it the information is already fairly familiar. I suggest you get both books, they are fairly cheap and will give you a lot of good knowledge if you do any type of backcountry activities in the winter. And take the AIARE 1/2 class. On a couple of private splitboarding trips, all the guides told me that they did their a majority of their planning at home first, figuring out the slopes and aspects to avoid, this book gave the same recommendation and went over a couple examples.
Rating: [5 of 5 Stars!]
[5 of 5 Stars!]
By Trinity
Date: May 03, 2017
Excellent supplement to an AVY 1 course.
Rating: [5 of 5 Stars!]
[5 of 5 Stars!]
By AKSteve
Date: April 28, 2017
Read this book before taking a level 1 class. A real eye-opener. Well worth the cost and reading time.
Rating: [5 of 5 Stars!]
[5 of 5 Stars!]
By montanadave
Date: January 06, 2017
A more concise/condensed version of the previous book. Tremper has a true gift for explaining things in a way most folks can understand.
Rating: [5 of 5 Stars!]
[5 of 5 Stars!]