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Henry's Avalanche Talk - tonight (1 Nov) in Covent Garden, anyone going or want to go?
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Following some excellent advice from
@Ryunis
, I'm going to try to attend one of the Henry's Avalanche Talks tonight 8PM at
Ellis Brigham
in Covent Garden. I've read mixed reviews here on Snowheads and elsewhere (maybe a bit dry, bit too long) but everyone seems to conclude that it's better to have gone than not to have gone. So I'm going to give it a shot, and would love to say hello to any Snowheads who may be there.
Obviously
A snowHead
isn't a real person
Obviously
A snowHead
isn't a real person
diaphon wrote:
Following some excellent advice from
@Ryunis
, I'm going to try to attend one of the Henry's Avalanche Talks tonight 8PM at
Ellis Brigham
in Covent Garden. I've read mixed reviews here on Snowheads and elsewhere (maybe a bit dry, bit too long) but everyone seems to conclude that it's better to have gone than not to have gone. So I'm going to give it a shot, and would love to say hello to any Snowheads who may be there.
It's rewarding to hear someone take up my suggestion, thanks. I am sure you will find it very interesting and would encourage you to undertake some practical training too. i.e. How to use your transceiver to quickly find someone buried, use the pole and then dig them out. It's all about speed and attending a course vastly improves everyone's.
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?
Just closing the loop on this thread, I did go to this session in Covent Garden and I'm glad that I did. It wasn't what I had expected.
First of all, as it was in the
Ellis Brigham
store, I thought they would promote avalanche equipment. Henry did pretty much the opposite, his main message was that avoiding an avalanche is far better than hoping to survive one. So he talked a lot about the importance of reading the mountain for terrain traps and what made slabs more likely to break loose. He mentioned probes, transceivers and shovels only briefly at the end of the talk.
Overall, this was very much an introductory discussion. He told us to be very cautious on slopes over 30 degrees and very quickly told us how to assess slope angles using our poles. He kept emphasising that we should be vigilant about terrain traps, but he didn't really say what those were. He talked a lot about human factors research, but this is an area I already know a fair amount about (I have a GA pilot's license and this also comes up in medical decision-making a lot).
I hadn't fully taken on board that this was just the "essentials" talk, and the following evening there was an "in depth" talk. I think I'd have gotten more out of it if I'd been able to attend both. But for £20 per talk with free beer, it got me thinking about avalanche safety in a different way and I'm glad I went.
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