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Staying Alive in Avalanche Terrain

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Staying Alive in Avalanche Terrain by Bruce Temper seems to be the easily digestible and most authoritative all things avalanche.

Quick question for those that have the book - does the hard copy version translate well into Kindle or do images\tables etc fail? I primarily use a paperlight kindle.
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@RichClark, the tables and graphics are a bit hard to read. It's still readable, but it's also the kind of book you want to flip back and forth in which IMO doesn't work so well on kindle. Tbh I wish I'd bought the hard copy version (not that I've seen it but I presume it is much clearer).
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New edition is out in September. Not sure how many changes will be made, but maybe worth waiting.
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@mgrolf, You're probably right, I've had few books now that don't translate well to kindle due to graphics of tables.

@boarder2020, Thanks, good to know, I'm in no rush.
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Agreed, But 'powderguide' reads even better as it uses and explains very well the 3x3 (werner munter?! sp) method and provides simple ways of working out where you can and cant go in AVI level 1,2,3, etc
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Thanks @PROJECT_MANAGER, i’ll take a look.
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I mean for goodness sake, no avi-bag, beacon or even a helmet! What was he thinking?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-50592060/chilled-jogger-calmly-dodges-avalanche-in-canada
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I mean for goodness sake, no avi-bag, beacon or even a helmet! What was he thinking?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-50592060/chilled-jogger-calmly-dodges-avalanche-in-canada


Sums up the Temper book for me in four words, “don’t ride your luck”.
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The Tremper book is undoubtedly good, I read it the first time on a flight to YYC, but there are others.

An in depth piece is 'The Avalanche Handbook' by McClung & Schaerer.

A more manageable read is 'Snow Sense' by Fredston & Fesler, but my favourite is 'Freeriding in Avalanche Terrain .... A Snowboarder's Handbook' by Jamieson & McDonald.

The last (well both really) carries easily, it's like a travel booklet, but full of succinct advice ...... sometimes you can read something with too much info and not take it all in.

At the end of the day it's still mostly luck, although you can make your own and hedge your bets, a little. I rarely travel in 'serious' terrain anyway, just pick about a bit so 'Freeriding' does me ....... as much as I enjoy boarding, it's not worth dying for ......
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