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Avalanche Burial- There’ll be an App for that

January 6th, 2010 by snowman

In a few years virtually all cell phones will be smart phones having a sophisticated display screen capable of showing in real time, on a large scale satellite photograph or topomap, the location of the user and the location of a buried victim and accurately indicating the distance and direction to the victim, plus the victim’s depth.

Skier Behavior (Wonkish)

April 11th, 2009 by snowman

With my apologies to Paul Krugman for the low level of wonkishness this post will provide, I thought I’d provide one of his warnings in the headline.
When I say skier behavior to my friends they immediately think of liftline misbehavior, reckless actions on the slopes and foolishness in the bar. What does that say about [...]