α-angle measurements

30th January 2010

Big thanks to Braemar Mountain sports for a rapid binding repair that kept us mobile in the mountains.

Measuring the α-angle of a recent large avalanche to determine whether it reached the maximum runout distance. We figured that bigger avalanches were possible in this corrie.

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