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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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Seems an extra gizmo to forge/lose. I'm also interested as to where these perfect slopes are where you can simply lay down an inclinometer and get an accurate reading.
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I road-tested one earlier in the season for Style Altitude and whilst it's a sgreat little device, it really needs to be set on a pole to get a true reading and it's a bit fussy as to its vertical orientation, a few degrees one way or the other and it gives false reading, practise make perfect 
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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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Just use your ski poles to measure the critical angle of 30 using poles to create an equilateral triangle.
Lay one pole on the snow directly above you so that basket, up the hill, and handle end mark the snow clearly.
Lift up pole, place tip on basket mark till basket is on snow mark.
Take second pole and place tip on end of handle mark, with basket on snow surface.
Join two handles together to form an equilateral triangle.
If the verticalish pole is actually vertical, then the slope is 30 degrees. If this pole leans out over slope, then over 30 deg slope, if leans back under 30 deg slope.
A Red piste averages 22 degrees, so 30 is a black slope.
Quite a few off piste ski guides and instructors haven't come across this very simple method.
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Henry teaches this method
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@Gordyjh, great, so no need for the meter!!
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My compass has a built in inclinometer but I must admit I’ve never used it. I have used the ski pole method described above.
Another reference point can be a camera viewfinder. A normal 4:3 image is about 37 degrees corner to corner.
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I guess for snowboarders, for whom carrying ski poles around isn't a factor, finding a different method of assessing slope angle may be useful
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Inclinometers are good tools for learning to assess the slope angle visually, but if you're using one to make go/no-go decisions, you're doing it wrong!
I have one which is very cheap, very accurate, very lightweight, never runs out of batteries and is very easy to use with gloved hands. It's a plastic protractor with a dangly needle....
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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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Yes. Skiing with instructors and guides last winter and they hadn't heard of it and thought it pretty cool.
In addition his three figures are:
15 - 30 - 50
15 minutes burial max for a 90% survival rate
30 degree slope
50% max of your on piste speed
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