Comments by "Dr Gamma D" (@DrDeuteron) on "The Terrifying Real Science Of Avalanches" video.

  1. where do you instruct? west of Colorado and south of Canada: no one says piste; rather "OB" = "off-piste".
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  2. even worse considering the name for snow crystal classifications, and riming.
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  3. those lift tickets do pay for safety.
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  4. when, where...which sport?
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  5. If you look at an aerial/sat photo of Roger's Pass, or any terrain, chutes where only small trees grow are dangerous, no trees is more dangerous, and when, on the other side of the road, there is a runout zone going back up the slope where no mature tree exists: don't stop, keep driving.
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  6. me too, I can't find my Avi handbook rn, but that was sus. I know a hidden graupel layer is very dangerous.
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  7. idk why he didn't mention massive dry powder avis, they get over 300 kph. But mad pow is the best.
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  8. it's more in the self-organized criticality domain, where long-range order arises from short range interactions.
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  9. a snow harbor wave?
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  10. avalauncher is the name of a howitzer, I forgot at which resort I saw it. But it's a lot easier than getting up there yourself. Maybe Big Sky?
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  11. actually they do it pre-dawn through morning under typical conditions. It's not easy work.
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  12.  @hankmax8899  so...they the mean the same thing.
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  13. what mistakes were here?
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  14. you talking about snowboarding? Because skis and snow-mobiles are tools that get used in the mountains. Boards are toys.
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  15. maybe bringing CO2 into the mix is a bad idea, since that's what turns the rescue into a recovery?
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  16. it's not that easy. Up on the mountain before sunrise. Every. Single. Day.
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