Agree about people needing to learn to say no and lack of awareness is not really a major issue. Just speculating, but I wonder if expert halo has played into some of the recent incidents. Perhaps a...

Don't most forecasts already do this only with current conditions and recent avalanches? Right now, on the CAIC homepage there is a picture of a 15' crown, that's pretty dramatic. I'm sure with...

Great discussion and it would be interesting to get a psychologist's input on how people actually assess risk. I believe one reason PWLs are so dangerous is that humans are not adapted to rationally...

My local forecasting center doesn't even publish a rose, narrative only. If you want to figure out the avalanche hazard you will need to spend more than 30 seconds looking at the report. This used...