The avalanche ball is a development of the avalanche cords that skiers used before the development of avalanche transceiver. Like a cord, it floats to the surface giving an immediate visual clue as to ...

Artificial snow is much denser than natural snow. It takes a meter cubed of water to make two meters cubed of snow. This snow has an effect on the vegetation and melts much later than natural snow. It ...

Météo France publishes an avalanche bulletin (BRA) for the Alps, Pyrenees and Corsica on a daily basis throughout the ski season from mid-December to the end of April. There is a twice weekly bulletin ...

For the past ten days, the ski lifts at Lioran have been at a standstill, marking a premature end to the season. This is the third consecutive winter where the resort has had to grapple with an ...

There was no trace of that when we arrived. The lifties all were very pleasant, although at 10am we seemed to be the first skiers on the slopes. Sainte-Foy is anything but busy. The ski station is ...

Ex-Rossignol B2?, the punter ski par-excellence (see video) is a compromise for the widest range of skiers rather than trying to impose a certain philosophy. A tool for skiers who are not looking for ...

Researchers using data gathered by the Swiss Avalanche Research Center at Davos for accidents between 1981 and 1991 have plotted the survival probability of a victim buried under snow against time.

At 1473 meters the Col de Vergio is Corsica's highest road pass. It is the most developed of the stations for those wanting to ski some piste with six drag lifts. The lift served area extends from ...

The paper "Evidence of heuristic traps in recreational avalanche accidents" presented at the 2002 International Snow Science Workshop by Ian McCammon gives some interesting insights into the decisions ...

This bulletin is produced from an automatic translation using a specialized dictionary for words and phrases relating to snow and avalanches. It should only be used as a complement to the actual ...