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Glossary

Don't know your sastrugi from your diurnal recrystalization? Trying to find rime or reason in the whoomphs? It's ok, it's hard. We got you.

A

Anchors

Aspect

Avalanche Air Bag

Avalung™

B

Beacon

Bed Surface

Bridging

C

Cirque

Climax Slab Avalanche

Clustered Snow

Collapsing

Concave Slope

Continental Climate

Convex Slope

Corn Snow

Cornice

Couloir

Cross Loaded

Crown

Crown Face

D

Deep Slab Avalanches

Delayed Action Avalanches

Depth Hoar

Direct Action Avalanches

Diurnal Recrystalization

Dry Avalanches

E

Equalibrium

F

Faceted Snow

Firn

Flagged Trees

Flux Line Search

Fracture

Fracture Line

G

Glide

Grain

Graupel

Grid Search

H

Hang Fire

Hard Slab

Humidity

I

Icefall

Icefall Avalanche

Induction Line Search

Intermountain Climate

Isothermal

L

Leeward

Loading

Loose Snow Avalanche

M

Maritime Climate

Melt Freeze Snow

Melt Layer Recrystallization

P

Persistent Weak Layers

Point Release

Probe

Propagation

R

Radiation Recrystallization

Rain Crust

Relative Humidity

Remote Trigger

Rime

Runout

Runout Angle

S

Sastrugi

Settlement

Settling

Ski Cut

Slab

Slope Cut

Sluff

Slush Flow Avalanche

Snow Profile

Snowpit

Soft Slab

Stepping Down

Sun Crust

Surface Hoar

Sympathetic Trigger

T

Tangent Line Search

Temperature Gradient

Terrain Trap

Trigger

Trigger Point

U

Upside Down Snow

W

Weak Interface

Weak Layer

Wet Avalanche

Whoomph

Wind Loading

Wind Slab

Windward