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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Section I ― Landscape

Environment
What Is It with People, Anyway?
Culture
It Is a Grim Landscape . . . Or Is It?

Section II ― Judgement

A Day in the Mountains
Thinking . . . Fast and Slow
Intuition
Bias
Heuristics
What You See Is All There Is
Optimism
Luck
Risk
Outliers
Chain of Causation
Snow Stability
The Illusion of Validity
Mood, Energy and Attitude

Section III ― Rules, Tools and Strategy

Framing a Risk
Teamwork
Mindset
The Public Avalanche Bulletin
The Avaluator
Rules of Thumb

Section ― IV

One Last Comparison
One Last Metaphor

Photo by Jia Condon
Photo by Jia Condon