 Poster: A snowHead
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It might be useful to compile a list of avalanche bulletins for different regions which are accessible online, as well as other useful avalanche related info. I try to read the avalanche bulletin every day I'm in resort, and knowing where to find these online might make it slightly easier than trekking to the Tourist Office each morning. The first place I check online is the always helpful PisteHors which has an auto-translation into English of the various regional bulletins from Meteo France (as well as a load of other useful info about avalanches and avalanche safety):
AVALANCHE BULLETINS
France
Northern French Alps
Haute Savoie Avalanche Bulletin
Savoie Avalanche Bulletin
Isere Avalanche Bulletin
Henry Schniewind's blog occasional commentary on snowpack conditions in the Tarentaise, especially Espace Killy domain.
Snowcrazy's blog occasional commentary on snowpack conditions in the Tarentaise, especially Paradiski domain.
Southern French Alps
Hautes-Alpes Avalanche Bulletin
Haute-Provence Avalanche Bulletin
Alpes Maritimes Avalanche Bulletin
Pyrénées
Pyrénées Atlantiques Avalanche Bulletin
Hautes Pyrénées Avalanche Bulletin
Haute Garonne Avalanche Bulletin
Ariège Avalanche Bulletin
Andorra Avalanche Bulletin
Pyrénées Orientales Avalanche Bulletin
Switzerland
Swiss Avalanche bulletins can be found (in English) at the Institut für Schnee- und Lawinenforschung website
North- and Central Grisons
Sud Grisons
Suisse Centrale
Bernese Oberland
Upper Valais
Lower Valais and Vaud Alps
Austria
Austria avalanche warning (in German) can be found at Österreichische Lawinenwarndienstefor the following regions:
Kärnten, Niederösterreich, Oberösterreich, Salzburg, Steiermark, Tirol and Vorarlberg. A summary in English can be found here.
Italy
Trentino
Lombardia (Bollettino Valanghe)
Valle d'Aosta
Scotland
Sport Scotland provides an avalanche information service for five different centres here.
UK Mountain Weather Information Service
Spain
Catalan Pyrenees
Western Pyrenees
Val d'Aran area of Catalan Pyrenees
Japan
Niseko snow and avalanche reports
GENERAL AVALANCHE INFO
Snow diary from Val d'Isere by Wayne Watson
Backcoutry Access
Utah Avalance Center
Henry's Avalanche Talk
ANENA
Swiss Snow and Avalanche Research
Glenmore Lodge Avalanche Quiz
Avalanche Training
Canadian Avalanche Center
Snow and Avalanche Field Notebook
TGR Avalanche and other Backcountry threads
US Forest Service National Avalanche Center
American Avalanche Center
For iPhone users Mammut have a free app called Safety which provides links to avy bulletins in several countries (although not translated into English) plus other useful things like clinometers, altimeters, and a digital compass.
Anyone got any other links to add?
Last edited by Poster: A snowHead on Wed 28-11-12 16:13; edited 10 times in total
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Any more links? Doesn't have to be just avalanche bulletins, as any information on snowpack stability would be a useful resource.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Patch, thanks!
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Good work. Can we make this a sticky?
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You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
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jbob, it's stuck already (thanks Mods).
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rob@rar, 
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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You know it makes sense.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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webbo, thanks.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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You need to Login to know who's really who.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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fluter, Good one. I'm signed up for emailed Valle d'Aosta reports but I don't recall the URL to sign up. It's a shame the same email service isn't available for other area's.
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Thank Aosta link added to the OP.
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Last week I was looking at the French Meto Avalanche bulletin forecasts on the basis of the Isotherm being so high for Friday, and was getting frustrated at my lack of French in being able to translate all the nuances of the avalanche bulletin, now made even more annoying as it's now an image so you can't copy the text and take it into Google translate.
I did some more research and found a way of doing the translation, bit long winded but you save the image then upload it to Google Docs and then in the settings get Google Docs to scan it into text, you then run it through Google Translate, so you might well get a few vague interpretations but it's still quite good, and if done on a regular basis I'm sure you'd get a better understanding of the bulletins.
Anyway this was the Forecast for our region Massif du Thabor
Risk estimation until Friday, April 19, 2013
Snowpack stability
The warm weather season continues tomorrow Humidification gaining altitude and depth. Some voluntary departures of wet snow avalanches are still possible this evening and night will freeze which then disappears as quickly in the morning. The eastern slopes are the first affected, and some voluntary departures are still likely in the middle of this risk then quickly extends the set of directions, north slopes should not be concerned about that below 25001'2800m while this risk is decreasing in the southern slopes or mantle estforiementtassé.
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You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
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The results are impressively good from Google Docs considering the low resolution image.
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Hello there, great work getting all these links together! At the top rob says about pistehores having an auto translate on the bulletin, how do you get to it? I get redirected to meteo fr, my French is pretty good but a mistake could be.....
Thanks stu.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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DeliciousMountain, I've collected the resources here
http://snowheads.com/ski-forum/viewtopic.php?t=93697
The French ones are still a problem however and doing auto translating not easy due to how Meteo France have posted them. The up side is that the graphic display of the avalanche levels indicating, level and aspect plus altitude where appropriate are clear even without translation. I have taken this up with the tourist office in Chamonix and while sympathetic have no leverage over meteo France. I understand that making the narrative difficult to auto translate was quite deliberate as it was felt that a potentially poor translation of what is technical safety related information was to be avoided.
Unfortunately the meteo France stuff will not display correctly on iPhones and iPads.
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thanks, these links are very good, specially for freeriders! thanks!
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You know it makes sense.
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I think this list has been superceded by jbob's one these days (see above), but just in case anyone's looking here...
Just a couple of suggestions: I think Andorra would be better as its own section, instead of grouped in with France -> Pyrenees. And the resource for Spain -> Western Pyrenees isn't correct. (The resource listed is actually for the Western part of the Catalan Pyrenees (the publisher is the Geographic Institute of Catalonia), and it's aready covered by (linked to from) the more general Catalan Pyrenees resource that's also in the list.
Instead, there's a new resource for Spain -> Western Pyrenees (Valle de Canfranc), which is http://www.alurte.es/boletin.php
I also recommend adding the following resources for the Central Spanish Pyrenees: http://www.aemet.es/en/eltiempo/prediccion/montana?w=2&p=arn1 plus http://lameteoqueviene.blogspot.com.es/ (amateur blog, but very highly regarded)
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