The Avalanche Handbook |  | Authors: David McClung, Peter Schaerer
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Media: Paperback
Edition: 3rd
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Pages: 342
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Size: One Size
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Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 7.1 x 1
MPN: X897-001197-001137-3
ISBN: 0898868092
Dewey Decimal Number: 551.57848
EAN: 9780898868098
ASIN: 0898868092
Publication Date: October 31, 2006
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Product Description
The Avalanche Handbook includes page after page of instruction to help you learn the safe way to travel through the backcountry and avoid the ride that no one wants to take. In addition to rescue techniques, this book teaches you about weather patterns, snow cycles, pit evaluation, route planning, and more to help you get through your weekend with only face shots as your memories.
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Amazon.com Review
Don't think it couldn't happen to you. Skiers, snowboarders, climbers, and anyone else who travels in the mountains should be aware of the awesome destructive power of avalanches and the conditions that cause them. The Handbook is a comprehensive guide to avoiding such a calamity of snow and ice--and how to improve your chances of survival if you're caught in one. With a combination of science and practical advice, the authors explain how avalanches happen, how to test a slope for slide potential, and how to navigate in avalanche-prone areas. This is essential material for winter recreation fans and outdoors enthusiasts.
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 A thorough introduction to avalanche theory. November 21, 1998
Tom Wolfe (sawback@agt.net) (Canmore, Alberta, Canada)
27 out of 29 found this review helpful
For backcountry enthusiasts with a science background, this book provides a thorough introduction to avalanche theory. The book is divided into chapters which build a solid foundation (weather systems, snow structure) through snowpack basics (snow strength and deformation, snowpack structure) and well into more advanced concepts (snowpack analysis, avalanche prediction, search and rescue, and even control with explosives, etc.) It is an excellent, if heavy, read and I found it a valuable resource in the development of an intro avalanche course.
Complete...*very* complete October 13, 2007
J. Kane (silverton, co, usa)
This handbook is a comprehensive compilation of the state of current science regarding the snow avalanche phenomenon. Required reading for most level 2 avalanche courses, and highly recommended for casual backcountry users, this book really excels in the figures and diagrams included. Be warned, however, that the material is rather dense - not really a sunday read...
Essential reading for Mountaineers March 7, 2010
J. Cordier (South Korea)
This is a great book that covers all the aspects required to understand avalanche safety and the elements of knowing what areas will avalanche. Great book!
The informative and thoroughly 'reader friendly' text is superbly organized and nicely illustrated June 3, 2007
Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Every winter we hear of people who have become the victim of an avalanche while skiing, snowmobiling, or camping in mountainous country where a landslide of snow roars down off a mountain side faster than anyone can move out of its way. Co-authored by David McClung (a professor in the Department of Geography and leader of the avalanche research group at the University of British Columbia) and Peter Schaerer (a senior research officer and head of the Avalanche Research Center of the National Research Council of Canada), "The Avalanche Handbook" is now published and available in a newly updated and expanded third edition that includes all the latest information, techniques, and research on understanding the nature of avalanches, as well as how to avoid and/or survive encounters with them. Readers will learn about the character and effects of avalanches, snow formations, snowpack analysis; the use of multiple transceivers along with other search and rescue techniques and equipment; the elements of avalanche forecasting, backcountry forecasting, and the decision-making process with respect to assessing avalanche possibilities; snow slap instability, terrain variables, skier triggering of avalanches, and the nature of avalanche motion. The informative and thoroughly 'reader friendly' text is superbly organized and nicely illustrated making "The Avalanche Handbook" essential and very strongly recommended reading for anyone venturing into mountain country in winter.
 Too scientific for most, but the best overal resource September 24, 2004
P. Mulligan (Lake Tahoe USA)
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
If you have a significant interest in Avalanche science and theory, or are going to take an avalanche course this is the book for you. If you are looking to create advanced Avy skills and/or to become an Avy professional though this is the definative resource on Avalanches. It is required reading for most courses (starting with avy 1).
I believe that for most recreational readers this book does at times get "heavy". Its easy to lose interest in this book from time to time as the science overcomes the practical. If you are a weekend backcountry traveler and are looking for a book that will keep your attention and teach you how to travel safely in Avy terrain this book is probably a little much. Staying Alive in Avalanche Terrain by Bruce Tremper is a much easier read and has all the most important information from this book. Combined with Snow Sense by Doug Fesler the two books are much more digestible for the average reader and a lot more fun as well.
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