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Some great days this week in spite of a mixed forecast this week, Gross Schijen, Strahlengrat and the Speroni di Pnote Brolla Black Diamond

Avalanche safety sure has come a long way since the days of using balloons in the 60’s 😯 How well do you actually think this would have worked? 🤔 #WarrenMiller

Combating human behaviours in complex systems...

Around 3:00 am last night a serac fall in the N face of Mt Blanc du Tacul (~4100 m asl) left one dead and four injured 😢 This face is known for this kind of hazard (see next tweet) Pic below (5:15 am) shows the release area (red dot), the deposit and the rescue lights at work 1/

The value of Marginal Gains. Small changes that we can make add up to big differences over time.

Well hello old friend.

Long term review of the Pieps IPS Pro is now up on our website. A deep dive on Pieps latest flagship model and their crusade against electronic magnetic interference (EMI). @blackdiamond_snow @pieps_technology avalanchegeeks.com/articles/

First Skier Triggered Avalanche of Season Reported in Colorado trib.al/pRZGMSh

Ooops. Permafrost degradation in steep rock walls at it's best. Luckily this one hit Piste 36 „Mittelberg“ (3250m asl) in the Pitztal glacier ski area during the night - no one got hurt. maps.app.goo.gl/uQGdWwceg4geiw… Read more on tirol.orf.at/stories/327910…

✨Congratulations to Lars Blatny for publishing his model for #cohesive, #compressible #granular flows in Journal of Fluid Mechanics ! This new elasto-viscoplastic model opens up new ways to simulate materials as sand & snow in both #solid & #fluid states, including complex #fracture processes

An example of survivorship bias: you tend to ask ChatGPT questions about things outside your specialty; it infers your personality based on questions you ask not those you don't ask.

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Pieps PRO IPS voluntary recall: pieps.com/en/2024-pieps-…

Black Turkey events & other statistical outliers. More here: avalanchegeeks.com/2023/11/07/gui…

Since the demise of Fatmap we've been looking at alternative 3D mapping tools that have avalanche angle overlays. instagram.com/p/DDMuHwEtJN-/…

#Avalanche | ⚠️ Risque marqué (3/5) dès demain, samedi 7 décembre en #HauteSavoie, sur les massifs du Chablais, des Aravis & du Montblanc au-delà de 2200m. ❄️ 📢 Soyez prudents & responsables. Sachez renoncer ou changer d'objectif !

Interesting on two levels. The pilot's decision to follow his intuition and the tone of the reactions in the comments.

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Our article: Avalanche Considerations in Couloirs is circulated in the backdrop journal. Check it out. backdropjournal.com/journal/avalan…

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