Kona Yuki
Wednesday, 30 January 2019
by Dan Ventura
Last winter, Mike Handford, Tim Herbert and a crew of Niseko locals set out with the aim to spend a month climbing the lesser known volcanoes of Japan's north island of Hokkaido with the hope of a rare ascent of Mt Rishiri in the Sea Of Japan. 28 feet of snow dropped over the next month, sending the crew on a different journey. One they maybe should have expected as they spent every day surfing through the deepest snow of their lives. A failed mission? No way!
- Published in Spark in the Field, Spark World Wide, Video
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Counteracting Heuristic Traps
Saturday, 19 January 2019
by Dan Ventura
Heuristics: types of decision making strategies (often thought of as rules of thumb) that
simplify decision making by reducing the number of cues analyzed, thus reducing cognitive
burden on decision makers and increasing decision efficiency
- Published in Avalanche Education
Season 4 of Aurelien Routens’ Carpe Diem
Thursday, 17 January 2019
by Dan Ventura
To say Aurelien Routens gets after it is an understatement. He travels the world with his splitboard and lives for adventure, mountaineering style approaches, and remote backcountry lines. Carpe Diem, now in its fourth season, chronicles his globe-trotting splitboard missions.
- Published in Spark in the Field, Spark World Wide, Video
I Heart My Avy Center Essay Contest Winner
Tuesday, 11 December 2018
by Dan Ventura
We’d like to thank everyone that participated in the I Heart My Avy Center Essay Contest. In all, we received 25 unique essays representing 15 different avalanche centers! It was inspiring to hear all the great work that avy centers are doing in their mountain communities all over the US and Canada.
- Published in Avalanche Education
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