White Risk

The tour planning module of the White Risk app offers flexible options for planning ski tour routes with the help of precise map material. Slope gradient layers and the automatic recognition of key points offer practical assistance here. Other information can also be displayed, such as wildlife protection zones.

Map with you on a ski tour? Logical. However, classic paper maps are rarely seen anymore, even though the battery can't run out. An app is usually consulted for orientation. But with so many apps to choose from, it's difficult to decide which one to use. Which one is suitable for my purposes? Where can I get the best overview for the least amount of money? We have tested the most popular apps for you and created a comparison.

The triumph of apps and thus smartphone-based orientation and navigation for outdoor activities has been unstoppable in recent years. The Swiss app White Risk goes one step further and combines this with extensive avalanche-related information and background material (e.g. training opportunities, etc.). Our tester reports on his experiences with it, from tour planning at home to the summit!

Last year was a bit special and unfortunately, for the first time in PG's history, we didn't have the opportunity to meet our partners directly at ISPO. Nevertheless, we caught up with our partners to get information on new products and highlights for the 2021/22 season and to give you a small and fine insight into the new products for the next powder season. The general trend towards sustainability is unbroken - please read the details!

The SLF issued its first avalanche bulletin on December 21, 1945. Since then, avalanche risk forecasting has developed significantly. However, despite all the technical advances, specialist knowledge and the assessment of experts are still required today.

Even in this very unusual season, we hope that all PowderGuide users will have a wonderful Christmas time and have the opportunity to give presents to their loved ones (or themselves). If you are still looking for last-minute ideas, here, as every year, are the PowderGuide editorial team's material wishes. Unfiltered.

White Risk, the SLF's comprehensive learning/knowledge tool for avalanche prevention, has been around for several years now. While version 1.0 was still distributed via DVDs, White Risk has been web-based and interactive since 2013. The White Risk app for IOS and Android is also available so that you can use the planned tours on your smartphone. I tried out how well the whole thing actually works for you using a tour to the Seekarspitze as an example

Stephan Harvey, a natural scientist and mountain guide, has been working at the Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research, SLF, in Davos for over 20 years. In addition to publishing several books on avalanche awareness, he is the man behind the well-known avalanche prevention platform, White Risk. In this interview, the avalanche expert talks to us about innovations at White Risk.

As a kind of afterthought to ISPO, which has now been over for a while, we would like to highlight a few highlights that our partner companies emphasized at the trade fair.

Avalanche warning is also a joint project for all of us. This week in SnowFlurry, we discuss why it is not only important to report avalanche accidents, but also special observations of snow and its transformation processes.

With White Risk, the SLF has been offering a very comprehensive and intuitive license-based e-learning tool for avalanche prevention for many years. In the 2016/17 season, the tool will be presented in a completely revised version. We tried out the tour planning features on a ski tour in Brandnertal.

White Risk is a four-language, web-based avalanche prevention platform (www.whiterisk.ch) and consists of the EXPLORE, LEARN, TOUR and PRO modules. The platform is a comprehensive interactive reference work on avalanche awareness and also includes a tour planning tool (TOUR) with a link to the mobile app.