Eye To the Avalanches!
the false truths on the avalanches
Drawn by Snowboard Magazine
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the cold consolidates snow, therefore not sirischia. This is
a false and very dangerous idea. When the cold follows a period of rise
of the temperature, it consolidates effettivimente the snowy mantle because
the water rigela. Instead Quano follows an intense snowfall, the cold preserve
the instability, making the slant to risk
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there is little snow, therefore he doesn't risk. According to
the statistics, in the winters with little snow you/they are had, between
the skiers, around three times more victims that in the winters with abundant
precipitations. Basins and channels where little snow is accumulated portta
strongly from the wind son to risk of distacci of slabs and avalanches.
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has not snowed from a lot of time anymore, snow has stabilized therefore.
If it is cold after a snowfall, the snowy blanket is stabilized slowly
and slant can be found also exposed to dangerous north to quite a lot days
after the snowfall.
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if the thickness of the snow is thin, there is not danger A considerable
thickness of snow it is stabilized better than one thin. This last facilitates,
especially on slant in shade, the formation of hoarfrost, due to the strong
difference between the ground and the surface. The hoarfrost becomes dangerous
when you/he/she is covered of snow forming some slabs.
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the woods protect. To the of under of their limit altitudinale there
is not danger. The woods dense indeed sure sonons from the danger of
avalanches but, very often they are so dense to be prevented the descent.
A thin wood, where visible big parts of sky are, it is not quite sure.
Besides, in the case of involvements in an avalanche, the presence of trees
increases the risk of accident, with the possibility of collision against
trunks.
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a little steep E', therefore You it is sure fresh snow,
mass in movement, you/he/she can continue to also slip on slant of 10-20
degrees of inclination. Decisive E' the inclination of the impending slant
from where if they overcome the 30 degrees, you/they can detach the avalanches
and the slabs
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a slant that introduces some cracks is dangerous partiolarmente.
Error!! It is not dangerous. Not visono more tensions in the slant, that
show to have found one equilibrium of his. These slant return dangerous
when, the damp and the increase of the temperature, will activate the transformation
of the fusion of the snow.
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