Part one of term paper
White soft fluffy snow, hard to imagine something so innocent could be so destructive. Just picture a few tons of snow traveling down the mountain at approximately 80 miles per hour, taking down everything in its path. have been a threat as long as there has been snow and mountains. Since I’m an avid backcountry skier it is important to le ...

Part two of term paper
... loose snow. Loose snow are minor and usually never exceed 20 miles per hour. While slab are the destructive and deadly mountain slides. It is not uncommon for one of these to destroy a small town or forest. Since loose snow aren’t very dangerous, I will discuss slab . The fundamentals of how these snow masses occur, what to look for when testing and just all-together prevention. The basic chemistry behind a slab avalanche is when one layer of snow does not bond to the layer below it. Any kind of ...