In the Field with the Gallatin National Forest Avalanche Center
Wednesday, 01 May 2019
by Dan Ventura
The GNFAC is a tremendous resource for our backcountry community and I’m stoked they’re letting me spend a day in the field with them. As an active reader of the daily avy forecasts the center puts out, I’m pretty interested to see how the cake is made, as they say.
- Published in Avalanche Education, Spark in the Field
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Out Here Episode 2: Chris Coulter Splitboarding in the Wasatch
Tuesday, 26 February 2019
by Dan Ventura
Thrilled to debut the second episode of the OUT HERE video series! Made in partnership with Jones Snowboards, the OUT HERE series shares the backcountry snowboarding adventures of Jones x Spark R&D ambassadors as they explore the outer reaches of their backyard mountain ranges.
- Published in Spark in the Field, Video
Kona Yuki
Wednesday, 30 January 2019
by Dan Ventura
Last winter, Mike Handford, Tim Herbert and a crew of Niseko locals set out with the aim to spend a month climbing the lesser known volcanoes of Japan's north island of Hokkaido with the hope of a rare ascent of Mt Rishiri in the Sea Of Japan. 28 feet of snow dropped over the next month, sending the crew on a different journey. One they maybe should have expected as they spent every day surfing through the deepest snow of their lives. A failed mission? No way!
- Published in Spark in the Field, Spark World Wide, Video
Counteracting Heuristic Traps
Saturday, 19 January 2019
by Dan Ventura
Heuristics: types of decision making strategies (often thought of as rules of thumb) that
simplify decision making by reducing the number of cues analyzed, thus reducing cognitive
burden on decision makers and increasing decision efficiency
- Published in Avalanche Education
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