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- Canadian Avalanche Association - Represents avalanche professionals working in Canada. Promotes scientific and technical knowledge, standards and communications and offers training to avalanche workers. Includes course description, current avalanche bulletins, accidents and statistics, and FAQs.
- NZ Avalanche Information Exchange - Avalanche danger advisories for mountain regions. Links to avalanche resources and avalanche courses.
- Avalanche Facts - Colorado Avalanche Information Center answers common questions about avalanches and safety.
- Avalanche Book Reviews and On-Line Ordering - Reviews of current avalanche books by Faerthen Felix, professional avalanche forecaster
- Forest Service National Avalanche Center - Provides a list of US avalanche centers and current reports, information on skiiers, snowboarders, and snowmobiler avalanche basics and statistics, and links.
- Westwide Avalanche Network - Westwide Avalanche Network is your one stop shop for current avalanche information around the world.
- Avalanche Centers and Organizations - Liste of organizations from the Westwide Avalanche Network.
- Avalanche: World War II Allied Assault on Italy - Avalanche was the Allied codename for the invasion of Salerno Italy, September 1943. American and British forces attempt to force a landing along a beach held by the veteran German 16th Panzer Division, soon reinforced by other tough German units.
- Italian Avalanche Service - As part of the Italian Alpine Club, the service promotes avalanche accident prevention and is active in avalanche training and instruction. Includes history of the service and information about its organization.
- Canadian Avalanche Association - Contributes to the goal of reducing avalanche incidents world wide.
Wikipedia Articles
- Avalanche net - Avalanche nets (snow avalanche protection nets, snow nets) are flexible snow supporting structures for avalanche control, constructed of steel or nylon cables or straps held by steel poles, optionally supplied with compression anchors downhill. They are installed in the upper parts of potential avalanche paths to prevent snow from starting to ...
- Avalanche transceiver - Avalanche transceivers are a class of radio transceivers specialized to the purpose of finding people or equipment buried under snow. They are variously called "ARVAs" (Appareil de Recherche de Victimes en Avalanche, in French), “avalanche beacons” or “avalanche transceivers” with many regional slang terms in effect.
- Avalanche snow bridge - An avalanche snow bridge or simply snow bridge is a type of rigid snow-supporting structures for avalanche control (avalanche defense). Avalanche bridges can be made of steel, prestressed concrete frames, or timber.
- Avalanche transistor - An Avalanche Transistor is a bipolar junction transistor designed for operation in the region of its collector-current/collector-to-emitter voltage characteristics beyond the collector to emitter breakdown voltage, called avalanche breakdown region . This region is characterized by avalanche breakdown, a phenomena similar to Townsend discharge for gases, and negative differential resistance.
- Magna Carta: The Phantom of Avalanche - Magna Carta: The Phantom of Avalanche (마그나카르타: The Phantom of Avalanche in South Korea) is a CRPG released in 2001 in South Korea by Softmax, and is the prequel to the PlayStation 2 title, Magna Carta: Tears of Blood. Though not officially having been localized outside of South Korea, The Phantom of Avalanche retains a somewhat sizable fan- ...