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BUILDING A WARNING SYSTEM The Backcountry Avalanche Advisory

BUILDING A WARNING SYSTEM The Backcountry Avalanche Advisory. Grant Statham Mountain Risk Specialist. A COLLABORATION BETWEEN. and the. Connaught Creek February 1, 2003. Parks Canada’s Avalanche Risk Review. 36 Recommendations. Focus on communication Information more accessible.

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BUILDING A WARNING SYSTEM The Backcountry Avalanche Advisory

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  1. BUILDING A WARNING SYSTEM The Backcountry Avalanche Advisory Grant Statham Mountain Risk Specialist

  2. A COLLABORATION BETWEEN and the

  3. Connaught Creek February 1, 2003

  4. Parks Canada’s Avalanche Risk Review 36 Recommendations • Focus on communication • Information more accessible November 2004

  5. Avalanche Danger Scale ALPINE TREELINE BELOW TREELINE 15 OPTIONS

  6. SOCIETY UNDERSTANDS This kind of comprehension was needed for avalanche danger

  7. Version 1 • Mountain/Avalanche • Action • International symbols • Warning colors • Effective in B&W

  8. Version 5

  9. Spring Icon

  10. Final Edition – Version 7

  11. Text Version 1

  12. Headers and Footers

  13. SIGNAL WORDS Marginal Significant Serious Challenging Stable Unsuitable Spring Good Dangerous Poor Suitable Grave Difficult Considerable Unfavorable Moderate Variable Fair Favorable Acute Changing Amateur Deteriorating Untrained Important Crucial

  14. Public Focus Testing – 2 Rounds • Students • Backcountry skiers • Shop owners • Ice Climbers • Parents • Snowmobilers • People off the street • Calgary • Golden • Revelstoke • Bow Valley After a total of 15 versions . . .

  15. Backcountry Avalanche Advisory

  16. TRANSLATION FROM DANGER SCALE

  17. GOOD Normal Caution Avalanches are infrequent but possible. Appropriate conditions for informed backcountry travel.

  18. SERIOUS Extra Caution Avalanches will occur with human and other triggers. Avalanche training and experience are essential for safe backcountry travel.

  19. POOR Not Recommended Avalanches are occurring frequently. Inappropriate conditions for backcountry travel without extensive avalanche training and experience.

  20. VARIABLE Extra Caution Conditions change from Good with frozen snow to Poor with melted snow. Avalanche training and experience are essential to monitor conditions for safe travel.

  21. media portal

  22. www.avalanche.ca

  23. television

  24. newspaper

  25. THANKYOU • Bruce Jamieson • Karl Klassen • William Leiss • Chris Stethem • Albi Sole • David Jones • Pascal Haegeli • Gisele Danis • Alan Jones • Clair Israelson • Mary Clayton • Eugene Thomlinson • John Kelly • Lise Gautron • Sylvain Hebert • Marc Deschenes • Dominique Boucher • Stephane Gagnon • Marc Ledwidge • Kathy Rettie • Rob Storeshaw • CAA Technical Committee • Bruce Tremper

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