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In article ,
Peter Clinch wrote:
A. Kleibeuker wrote:

Does anybody know a good (extensive) book about avalanches?

Recommended reading list at the Scottish Avalanche Information Service
site (see http://www.sais.gov.uk) is:

* A Chance in a Million? - Barton and Wright.
* Mountaincraft and Leadership - Langmuir.
* International Mountain Rescue Handbook - MacInnes.
* Avalanche Safety for Climbers and Skiers - Daffern.
* The Avalanche Handbook - McClung and Schaerer
* Snow Sense - Fredston and Fesler

Though the Langmuir book is very good note it's a general mountain
leadership volume with little specific to skiing and with avalanches
only a small portion. It's also quite skewed to a UK perspective, so
good though it is at what it sets out to do, probably not one to bother
with here.


_ If you want to know all the gory details, I think "The
Avalanche Handbook" is the way to go. For general mountain
travel issues, "Mountaineering, Freedom of the Hills" is a
great book to have.

_ However, I think at best you can only learn to identify
risks, which is a good thing. Actually quantifing them and
making no/go decisions is something that can only come with
experience and even the most experienced people sometimes
get it drastically wrong.

_ Booker C. Bense



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