Thread: Backcountry Links thread (was Backcountry Jong thread)

Putting this in Slide Zone as keep forgetting to bump it.

Keywords: Backcountry JONG Beginner Newb Naxo Freeride Dynafit Avalanche Equipment Skinning Gear Equipment

Some useful links.

AVALANCHE INCIDENTS

avi # 2 baker (Successful rescue of a deep buried victim)

First person account of Berthoud Pass avvy rescue Nov 2005 (Unsuccessful rescue of a victim buried without a tranSceiver)

Going to Dig up a Dead Guy, a TR of Sorts (Unsuccessful rescue of a victim buried without a transceiver, some basic first aid discussion)

Triage: multiple burials and one rescuer (slightly more advanced and technical discussion of protocol in multiple burial situations)

Sobering Avy Story (experienced party are caught in an avalanche in a couloir)


First hand Avalanche account, Decker, 2002 (experienced skier retains enough awareness of escape routes to avoid a burial)

You might be in Avy conditions when.... (numerous videos)


Scared in Slow Motion -- Avalanche Burial Story

GLACIER CREVASSE INCIDENTS

Cham...a crevassholes story (entertainingly told from victim's perspective with some rescue description)

[TR] Mt Rainier- Emmons Glacier 7/17/2005

Crevasse rescue incident on Coleman Glacier

WEATHER

Weather Information for Backcountry Travel (British Columbia coast mountains centric)

Winter Weather Patterns in Western Canadian Mountains

CairnPublishing\\\'s links - possibly the best collection of links for British Columbia backcountry information.

Northwest Weather and Avalanche Center

BOOKS AND COURSES

Avalanche Awareness resources - TGR - Telemarktips

Online Avalanche refresher course

Avalanche awareness classes in Sea to Sky corridor of BC - see here for rest of Canada

Book to study prior to Avalanche Class?

Avalanche Safety Classes

HUMAN FACTORS

Introducing wife to Backcountry? (human factors in interesting a partner in trying out backcountry touring)

SUMMIT FEVER (human factors in goal-setting)

s%*t we should turn around thread (more human factors in goal-setting)

Guide for a Day- The Dynamics of Accidental Leadership and TTIPS discussion (insightful article on group dynamics)

Ian MacCammon\\\'s excellent article on heuristic traps

MAPS AND ROUTE FINDING

Route Finding-- why do you want to go that way?

Top Ten Ways that Map Reading keeps you Avy-Safe (links to David Spring article on importance of map reading and route finding plus lots of opinions) and more discussion also from TTIPs

Trail Repository site (resource for generating 1:20,000 basemaps of British Columbia from generally accurate but frustratingly slow BC government website. Allows creation of UTM grids and plotting waypoints)

Marked up versions of some popular BC area touring places with placenames

Topo software

Re map reading

EXPEDITION AND TRIP PLANNING

Jim Frankenfeld Organized Trips page (awesome way to organize a trip and herd cats)

BASIC FIRST AID AND RESCUE


Welcome to OECzone.com

TECHNIQUE

Getting started in the Backcountry - by APD

First and Ten Beacon Practise

Hasty pits

Skinning Efficiently - TGR version - TTips version

TGR Conway\\\'s Corner (grab bag of excellent general articles

MEC\\\'s Avalanche Awareness Series

GEAR

The Lite Weight Gear Thread

Ideas for saving weight on rope plus biner combination - see comments by andrew mclean/AT Apostle

Recommended Beacon/probe/Shovel List

Tools of the Trade--avy gear--what do you carry?

Glacier Harness (covers off basic kit for crevasse rescue and glacier travel)

Avalung Survivor

ABS Avy Pack-Who\\\'s buying one this season?


Burliest AT setup - (caution lots of dickswinging, some good advice though on why big aggressive skiers would want to go with Trekkers)

Who Has the Burliest Dynafit Setup?

AT Boots in Alpine Bindings - Controlled Test

Using Mountaineering Boots with AT binders?

Saloman Ellipse E2 as an AT boot

Silvretta Pure Reviews

Ski Crampons-tis the season

Potentially Useful Info on Dynafit Bindings

Fritschi toepiece field repair question and Fritschi Freeride spring problem

Towing a Gear Sled

Regluing Skins

Tips for using Trekkers

Fritschi Freeride breakage


Advice from skier666?!? - AT boots vs alpine boots

REVIEW: Marker Duke AT Bindings

Avy Beacon Comparison chart

Wow!
That's a lot of sorting out
I Thank You.
Don't know if I'll have time to read everything though...

Thanks (again), LeeLau!

This is a great resource. Thanks for all the sorting and gathering work, instead of dozens of bookmarks we can keep it simple with this mini-library.
Excellent.

A fine resource that should be stickied. Thanks for the info!

very nice.
sticky this biatch.

thirded for a sticky... great work organizing it all. paging suit!

How did I miss this thread until now, great work.

Added some more - have to use a separate post as there's a character limit for single posts.


AVALANCHE INCIDENTS
Brother Caught in Avalanche Today in St. Anton

Fissile 3.5 avalanche - here and here

Incident, rescue and fatality - Smithers

Death sucks: Don\\\'t be that guy

Echo Peak


Tunnel Creek - discussion one - discussion two - discussion three -- and Megan Michaelson Outside Magazine article

First person avvy account - Rossland Range - trees

Tree well close call - Whistler

HUMAN FACTORS

Drew Tabke Interview - Freeskier re overreliance on gear and underreliance on brains

An honest evaluation of the Romeo/Onufer incident - Tetons

Canyons fatality - sidecountry


TECHNIQUE


Top Ten Avalanche Tips

What to do when you are caught

Growth in Backcountry and discussion about how to get experience in skills (not just avalanche assessment skills but skills generally)

Gameplan when you have an airbag

Glossary of terms used in reports - AAA

MAPS AND ROUTE FINDING

Terrain management or "poor line" selection as a factor for avalanche avoidance

John Sheffitz\\\'s avalanche quiz

Route selection

Route finding

GEAR category

Yet another newbie to skins thread

Factor vs Radium

Your 3-day Ski Tour Set-Up? (Tent, Backpack, and Sleeping Bag Advice Needed)

The AT Boot Thread

AT boot comparative review


Intuition Liners1 - Intuition Liners2 - Intuition Liners3

Cooking Intuition Liners

What probe to buy

ABS Pack Review


ABS Vario Pack review

Snowpulse Pack review

Electronics interfering with Transceivers

WEATHER AND CONDITIONS

Parks Canada Rogers Pass weather and forecast

Various BC backcountry lodges

Collections of Canadian links

Tutorial on using Canadian weather links

Duffy Lake weather stations - Duffy weather stations

http://www.bchydro.com/info/res_hydromet/data/hur.txt

http://www.th.gov.bc.ca/bchighwaycam...tationId=26224

http://www.env.gov.bc.ca/rfc/river_f...Data/1D06P.htm

Random BC weather stations and cams

BC Hydro stations


ACMG Mountains Conditions Report

Bad snowpacks - what happens next

bump for excellent info. seriously, nice job on this, I have referenced it several times

Bump for lots of great info and interesting photo journal.

You don't see classes prescheduled in November because to teach a good class you need some snowpack to go study and that isn't always guaranteed in many parts of the state.

Holy crap! Thank you to everyone for all your time and effort. This is a HUGE resource for a newb to the bc like myself.
cheers

http://www.avalanche.ca/cac/training/online-course

unlike above posters I am not a spam bot,

edit - looks like a mod came through and cleaned out the spam

Also not a spam bot, but I'll shamelessly add my website to the Maps and Routefinding Category:

www.SlopeAngleMaps.com

I make slope angle overlays for Google Earth, for any region you want.

Wow, how had I not seen this before. Great thread, loads of info. Time to get reading

Great post!

Well bump
for a good thread the turn either is here or aproaching in your mind
and for any lurking or posting jongs that are busy reading or posting other entertaining shizz

Bump

Sat in with a AVI 1 today...

Anyone have a link for a glossary of abbreviations used to relay pit results? I know some of them, but others leave me perplexed. If anyone knows of somewhere with a comprehensive list, that would be greatly appreciated!

thanks for the bump!

Originally Posted by nickel

Anyone have a link for a glossary of abbreviations used to relay pit results? I know some of them, but others leave me perplexed. If anyone knows of somewhere with a comprehensive list, that would be greatly appreciated!

http://www.americanavalancheassociat...g/pub_swag.php

Thanks a lot Pinner!

Bumpage.

Online avalanche review link doesn't work, soooo:

Jonathan S's avalanche quiz https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B6QM...pli=1&hl=en_US

bump for a thread full of great info. The article on heuristic traps in group decision making is linked on page one, worth a read if you haven't.

And to add this thread on what to do if you are caught. Karl spoke of Theo's chart this spring, how when he showed it to a Swiss researcher who had deeply investigated what happens to objects in a slide, the researcher was amazed how accurate Theo's theories were.