Snow – Robert Bolognesi (Paperback / Soft Cover)

Understanding, testing and interpreting snow conditions to make better avalanche predictions

This practical guide is aimed at walkers, climbers and
snowsport enthusiasts who want to acquire or improve
their knowledge of snow and avalanche release, and also
at snow professionals, guides, mountaineering and
snowsport instructors and ski patrollers. It describes
the process of formation and evolution of snow and shows
practical methods of examining and analysing the snow
cover. It throws light on how best to understand the many
forms which snow may take, and on how to assess avalanche
risk more precisely and reliably … It includes a system
of snow observation and a snow crystal card. The
instability of the snowpack depends very much on its
physical make-up, which unfortunately is quite difficult
to understand, the more so as in the mountains it varies
perceptibly with both place and time. What is snow? How
is it formed? How does it change? Where and when is it
dangerous? This book will attempt to provide a few
answers to these questions by examining: forms of snow
crystals; snow crystal changes on the ground; how these
changes affect snow cohesion; how to estimate weakness of
the snowpack from: continuous meteorological observation,
snow profiles, stability tests; and how the stratigraphy
of the snowpack affects its stability.

Author: Robert Bolognesi
Format: Paperback / Soft Cover
Pages: 64
Size: Not Specified
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