Alaska's own IFMGA certified guide Joe Stock has recently released a book called The Avalanche Factor: Understanding and Avoiding Avalanches. The 304-page handbook for skiers, climbers and other recreational backcountry users distills decades of skiing, guiding and teaching into a step-by-step systems to reduce your risk while traveling in avalanche terrain.
Topics include:
- Avalanche Terrain
- Weather and Snowpack
- Problems and Danger
- People and Making Good Decisions
- Margins For Safety
- The Avalanche Avoidance System
- Climbers and Avalanches
- Rescue
Joe's uniquely Alaskan flavor lends itself to an easy to digest modern text on avalanche safety and compliments other seminal avalanche safety texts that include other books such as:
- Staying Alive in Avalanche Terrain, 3rd Edition by Bruce Tremper
- Snow Sense by Doug and Jill Freston
Other e-books available online are :
- Autonomy, Mastery and Purpose in the Avalanche Path by Bruce Kay
- Avalanche Craft by Bruce Jaimeson and Terry Palechuk
Field guide and handbooks include:
- Avalanche Search and Rescue: A Backcountry Field Guide by Alexis Alloway
- The Avalanche Handbook, 4th Edition by David McClung
*Cover photo courtesy of https://www.stockalpine.com/
