Snow Sense: A Guide to Evaluating Snow Avalanche Hazard

"Snow Sense" is the best-selling, easiest to read, most informative avalanche safety book available. Intended for skiers, snowmachiners, snowboarders, climbers and others who work and play in avalanche country, "Snow Sense" is written to help backcountry travelers learn to recognize, evaluate, and avoid snow avalanche hazards.

Avalanche accidents do not happen by accident; they happen for particular reasons. "Snow Sense" addresses the critical terrain, snowpack, and weather variables that make it possible for a slope to avalanche along with the human factors that allow most accidents to happen. If you don't want to become an avalanche victim, read this book.

Doug Fesler and Jill Fredston have worked for many years as avalanche provessionals. Together, they run the Alaska Mountain Safety Center, Inc., a non-profit organization specializing in avalanche hazard evaluation, forecasting, mitigation, and education. They are also directors of the Alaska Avalanche School which is widely recognized for providing intensive, field-oriented avalanche hazard evaluation and mountain safety training.