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Avalanche center gets technical with incident reports |
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Monday, January 16, 2012 10:49 |
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Image from CAIC
By JANICE KURBJUN, SUMMIT DAILY NEWS
Video has become the new feature on the Colorado Avalanche Information Center website this season.
Following a charge from CAIC director Ethan Greene, staff included a roughly 3-minute video in their incident report for the New Years Day avalanche near Berthoud Pass. It features still photographs and on-site footage of CAIC experts conducting their analysis of the slide and outlining what happened to result in a partially buried, injured skier who was hospitalized upon recovery.
“Most of us are visual learners,” said Scott Toepfer of the CAIC. “We can see things, can demonstrate things, can point at them and explain it. Video is a great tool.”
He pointed out that as the skiing population ages, a new generation of backcountry snow enthusiasts are looking to CAIC for information. Several years ago, staff realized that text-only wasn't cutting it. So they added photos. Now, video is the next logical step.
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