Utah Avalanche Center Podcast
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- Duration: 36:21:39
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Synopsis
The podcast that helps keep you on top of the snow rather than buried beneath it.
Episodes
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Drew's Blogcast: The Anthropology of Risk
13/01/2021 Duration: 03minCould our evolutionary history help explain why we enjoy putting our lives at risk?
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Managing Avalanche Risk, Managing Pandemic Risk: A Conversation with Dr. Angela Dunn.
28/12/2020 Duration: 54minDr. Angela Dunn is the State Epidemiologist for the Utah Department of Health. In this episode: messaging the problem as you're learning about it; public safety and risk guidelines; cascading risks; marketing problems; the risk/reward balancing act; the single overriding communications objective; effecting behavior change; sticky messaging; culture eats strategy for breakfast; irreproducible accents.
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Drew's Blogcast: No Exit, or Tragedy of the Commons
24/12/2020 Duration: 04minWe're all in this together.
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AAI's Sarah Carpenter on the Gift of Avalanche Education
14/12/2020 Duration: 51minSarah Carpenter is a co-owner of the American Avalanche Institute and a ski guide in the Tetons. In this episode: Giving backcountry users the keys to the castle; the evolution of avalanche education; snow science as equal parts science and voodoo magic; education vs air bag; checklists and systems for safety; sharing stories when you get it wrong; Don Carpenter and the qualities of good backcountry partners; and painting!
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How Not to Be a Backcountry Mr/s. Magoo - A Conversation with Blase Reardon
28/02/2020 Duration: 55minBlase Reardon has been a backcountry avalanche forecaster in Ketchum, Aspen, Glacier National Park, and is now the lead forecaster for the Flathead Avalanche Center in northern Montana. On tap this episode: forecasting in data-sparse regions; the mysteries of wet snow; Mr. Magoo's close calls, wicked learning environments & the illusion of expertise; the need for increased feedback; The Snowy Torrents; accident reports; the forecaster's role; and how best to progress your backcountry know-how.
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Drew's Blogcast: Drift into Failure
14/02/2020 Duration: 02minHow is that we learn good lessons that we mind for a while before drifting into failure once again? Hint: It has to do with heuristics.
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The Art of Storytelling Through Film - A Conversation withTrent Meisenheimer
24/01/2020 Duration: 35minIn the avalanche world, UAC forecaster Trent Meisenheimer is at the forefront of storytelling and communication through the use of video. Trent uses high-def cameras, drones, and cutting-edge video software to communicate the visceral realities of a field day in avalanche terrain or a recent avalanche accident. He's also the wunderkind director of the Know Before You Go video, and "To Hell in a Heartbeat," among others. Trent joins us to talk about the art of storytelling through film.
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An Avalanche Forecaster, a Meteorologist, and an Economist Walk Into a Bar...
10/01/2020 Duration: 53minHere's a question: What's the goal of forecasting? Economist Peter Donner and meteorologist Larry Dunn are both retired from their respective careers predicting the future, and they join Drew to share what they know about the intricacies of forecasting. It may sound dry, but the economic concepts of gain and loss, risk and reward shape good decision making in the backcountry. So, what's the goal of forecasting: accuracy or outcomes? How do you impact decision making--not to mention your reputation--with forecasts that overly cautious or not cautious enough? And how do you minimize risk when out on a tour?
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Risk, Reward, and The Big Lie - A Conversation with Doug Workman
27/12/2019 Duration: 29minIn this podcast, we sit down with Doug Workman. An alpine guide, Doug is the real deal when it comes international ski guiding. He's been taking risks on the snow since he was a toddler learning to ski at Powder Ridge in Connecticut. Since then, he has found many other places to experiment with risk and risk management: Alaska, Pakistan, Iceland, China, Morocco, Svalbard, Antarctica, and right in his backyard, the Tetons. He makes his home in Jackson, Wyoming with his wife and two children where he works as a Mountain Guide and Avalanche Program Manager for Mammut North America.
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Drew's Blogcast - "Roping the Wind (Slab)"
23/12/2019 Duration: 03minWhat does a Eastern Utah rancher have in common with the risks of backcountry touring?
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Why Forecasting is Poker and Not Chess - A Conversation with Jenna Malone
14/12/2019 Duration: 24minDuring the day, Jenna Malone is a physicians assistant, but she moonlights as a ski patroller at Alta, a Powderbird guide, and an instructor with AAI. At this fall's Utah Snow and Avalanche Workshop, she gave a compelling presentation on why avalanche decision making is more like poker than chess. The difference is in the levels of certainty and the information available to the players. Inspired by champion poker player Annie Duke's book Thinking in Bets, Jenna discusses how we make decisions in avalanche terrain, knowing that in this game, the stakes are our very lives.
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Drew's Blogcast - "The Devil and Daniel Webster"
04/12/2019 Duration: 05minWhat I want to know is this: Do we make a deal with Death when we play games with risk?
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Early Season Essentials - A Conversation with Bo Torrey
14/11/2019 Duration: 20minIt's key to head into the early avalanche season with the proper mindset. In this podcast, we talk with UAC program director Bo Torrey. Bo talks about particular risks unique to the early season, tips and tricks for knocking the rust off your early season rescue skills, and charts out the path forward to avalanche education.
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Drew's Blogcast - "Low Danger"
05/04/2019 Duration: 01h14minOn Saturday, January 5, the danger rating in the Salt Lake area went Low. As you'd expect, people got out after it. By the end of the day there were eight skier-triggered avalanches, with four people caught and carried in separate events, and one visit to the ER. In this episode, we put one of those accidents under the microscope and examine how the forecast affects decision making. Our guests: UAC forecaster Greg Gargne, backcountry skiers Vlad Pascu and Jackie Long, Professor Russ Costa, and researcher Laura Maguire.
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Bringing People and Ideas Together - A Conversation with Lynne Wolfe
28/03/2019 Duration: 47minIn this episode, we sit down with Lynne Wolfe. Lynne is a longtime mountain guide for both Exum and Jackson Hole Mountain Guides. She has taught innumerable avalanche courses for AAI, NOLS, and Yostmark and since 2005 she's been the editor of The Avalanche Review. Discussed in this episode: articles that have helped save lives; Ed LaChapelle's "ascending spiral"; debriefing with purpose; find good ski partners; being a good ski partner; talk about things that matter; Listen!
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Drew's Blogcast: "Stacking the Deck"
21/03/2019 Duration: 04minThere's no telling when calamity or injury may strike, so what can you do to make sure you're prepared to act when they do?
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Wise Ones - Talking about Mentors with Eeva Latosuo & Aleph Johnston-Bloom
13/03/2019 Duration: 59minAll the way from Alaska, Eeva Latosuo and Aleph Johnston-Bloom join Drew to talk about their research on the mentoring network that undergirds so much of the avalanche and snow science community. Discussed in this episode: what a mentorship is; how to find a mentor; who's mentoring who; why mentoring; how information passes through the mentoring tree; the two-way street; aging out of mentorship; learning decision making skills, workplace safety and culture; staying curious; knowing when you've "made it."
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Drew's Blogcast: "Shame and the Social Contract"
13/03/2019 Duration: 10minThe importance of being open about avalanche involvements and near misses, and how we can cultivate a culture of learning, absolute transparency and non-judgment, regardless of individual risk tolerances. Put yourself in other people's shoes. Practice humility. Destroy shame!
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The Smartest Guy in the Room - A Conversation with Ian McCammon
27/02/2019 Duration: 01h14minIn this podcast, we sit down with none other than Ian McCammon. Ian holds a PhD in mechanical engineering with an emphasis on robotics and sensory development and his avalanche research has focused on safety education, fracture mechanics, and the human factor. Discussed in this episode: The Carruthers Incident (’95); ALPTRUTh; Lemons; FACETS; buried weak layers of assumptions; future lines of avalanche inquiry; Airbag vs avy education; The test of all knowledge is experiment; have your best day!
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Drew's Blogcast: I AM Dangerous
21/02/2019 Duration: 03minWe can all agree that traveling in the backcountry is dangerous. Out in the mountains, we take risks and we push the odds. So, if the mountains are dangerous and risky, what does that make you?