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Utah Avalanche Center Podcast — 62 episodes

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1

How Healthy Is Utah's Backcountry Culture?

2

Finding the Goldilocks Zone for Uncertainty in the Avalanche Forecast

3

AI, Machine Learning, and the Value of Expert Intuition at the Utah Avalanche Center

4

Bill Glude Wants You to Ride Hard and Die Old

5

An Oral History of the Friends Who Keep the UAC Humming

6

Brett Kobernick Knows It in His Bones: Nobody is Immune from Getting Killed in an Avalanche

7

Dave Garcia on Having and Having Not Loads of Info

8

Dave Kelly on the Nuances of Public Forecasting

9

Craig Gordon and the Zen of Solo Touring

10

Toby Weed on Sharing the Joys of Powder Snow

11

Paige Pagnucco on Effective Messaging in Culturally Complex Terrain

12

Eric Trenbeath on the Communal Impact of a Tragic Avalanche

13

Greg Gagne on Developing a Conservative Mindset and Cultivating Community

14

Nikki Champion on Forecast Accuracy and Finding Your Way

15

Drew Hardesty on Stories, Storytelling and Safety Communication

16

Laura McGladrey on the Keys to a Long and Healthy Career in the Mountains

17

Snow Monk Jerry Roberts on a Lifetime in the Mountains

18

Chris Lundy on the Four-Letter Word of Decision Making

19

Laura Maguire on the Nuances of Navigating Complex Environments

20

Brad Meiklejohn: Setting the Early Uptrack for the Utah Avalanche Center

21

How Do The Youngs Guns Manage Risk?

22

Grant Statham on How We Think About And Communicate Avalanche Risk

23

Does Culture Eat Training for Breakfast?

24

A Financial Adviser and a Heli-Ski Guide Walk Into a Bar

25

Veteran Forecaster Don Bachman on the San Juan Avalanche Project

26

Processing the Wilson Glade Accident

27

How Valuable Are Avalanche Airbags Really? - A Conversation with Dr. Scott McIntosh and Black Diamond's Andy Merriman

28

Developing a Culture of Safety: A Conversation with Jeff Hambelton

29

Drew's Blogcast: The Anthropology of Risk

30

Managing Avalanche Risk, Managing Pandemic Risk: A Conversation with Dr. Angela Dunn.

31

Drew's Blogcast: No Exit, or Tragedy of the Commons

32

AAI's Sarah Carpenter on the Gift of Avalanche Education

33

How Not to Be a Backcountry Mr/s. Magoo - A Conversation with Blase Reardon

34

Drew's Blogcast: Drift into Failure

35

The Art of Storytelling Through Film - A Conversation withTrent Meisenheimer

36

An Avalanche Forecaster, a Meteorologist, and an Economist Walk Into a Bar...

37

Risk, Reward, and The Big Lie - A Conversation with Doug Workman

38

Drew's Blogcast - "Roping the Wind (Slab)"

39

Why Forecasting is Poker and Not Chess - A Conversation with Jenna Malone

40

Drew's Blogcast - "The Devil and Daniel Webster"

41

Early Season Essentials - A Conversation with Bo Torrey

42

Drew's Blogcast - "Low Danger"

43

Bringing People and Ideas Together - A Conversation with Lynne Wolfe

44

Drew's Blogcast: "Stacking the Deck"

45

Wise Ones - Talking about Mentors with Eeva Latosuo & Aleph Johnston-Bloom

46

Drew's Blogcast: "Shame and the Social Contract"

47

The Smartest Guy in the Room - A Conversation with Ian McCammon

48

Drew's Blogcast: I AM Dangerous

49

The Message and the Messengers - A Conversation with Alex Hamlin

50

Drew's Blogcast: "The Wisdom of Crowds"

51

The Risks and Rewards of Ski Patrol - A Conversation with Jake Hutchinson

52

Drew's Blogcast: "The Metamorphism Parable"

53

Breaking the Stigma of Trauma - Another Conversation with Dave Richards

54

Drew's Blogcast: "Guilt"

55

Finding the Line - A Conversation with UAC Pro Observer Mark White

56

Mastery and False Mastery - An Interview with "Big" Don Sharaf

57

A Conversation with Tom Kimbrough, Hemingway of the Wasatch

58

To Hell in a Heartbeat

59

Recreating Like a Pro

60

Avalanche Mitigation Over Open Roads

61

Avalanche Weather with Professor Powder, Jim Steenburgh

62

The Day of Madness in Little Cottonwood Canyon