Avalanche Awareness
Last night Aaron Johnson from Mountain Adventure Seminars (MAS) put on a FREE Avalanche Awareness Lecture at the Sunrise Mountain Sports Store in Livermore. A full house of backcountry aficionados including skiers and snowshoers showed up for the enlightening lecture. The program was just the first step every winter backcountry enthusiast should take to ensure their own safety on their backcountry tours in the winter.
Aaron covered who is getting caught, and what gets them in trouble early on in his talk with statistics and photos. He defined the key components of avalanches including what is avalanche terrain, what causes snow to be unstable, and exactly what triggers avalanches. He finished the program by emphasizing terrain selection, decision making and self rescue as the way to keep yourself safe. If you would like a first class education in avalanche safety you should consider taking a course with (MAS). They are family owned year-round mountaineering school and guide service based in Bear Valley, California, just a couple of hours away. They have eight three day level 1 seminars scheduled for this winter.
Kim Grandfield
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