Tag: Avalanche Canada trip planner

Real-world use of an ATES, can come into play when exploring unfamiliar terrain.

A great and free resource, (although it must cost Avalanche Canada money to produce and host), is their trip planner. Load the planner, and scroll and zoom on the Whistler zone to view specific terrain overlaid with ATES descriptions. The map provided is suitable for a first-step analysis: it is 2D, and once zoomed in sufficiently, populates with topo lines and even a track, for example, of the Spearhead Traverse. I can begin to analyze what type of avalanche exposure I can expect on the traverse.