Lecture: Digital Navigation and Trip Planning
Webinar: Winter Route Planning (Advanced) - Online Classroom
Learn techniques to plan winter routes, including analysis of avalanche hazards.
- Info
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Contacts
Travis Prescott
Primary Leader
- Wed, Apr 3, 2019
- Foothills Navigation Committee
- Navigation
- Adults
- Challenging
- 8 (31 capacity)
- Cancellation & Refund Policy
Online Zoom webinar. 7pm-8pm.
In the final Caltopo skills webinar, we explore tools and techniques to tackle the challenges of winter trip planning:
- Researching winter routes
- Identifying avalanche terrain
- Creating custom DEM shaders
- Using bearing cones to estimate runout potential
- Using polygons to designate "restricted" areas
- Weather data analysis
- Evaluating trip plan against NWAC forecast
Route/Place
Roster
Required Equipment
Required Equipment
- Desktop computer
- High-speed internet
Trip Reports