Across
- 2. Everyone in your group wears this. Allows you to be found more easier
- 3. In the U.S., a five-category estimation of the avalanche danger: Low, Moderate, Considerable, High, and Extreme.
- 5. The upper snow layers lose this... causing an avalanche
- 6. Pull a cord on your bag to active. Protects you from the snow
- 10. These people are often vulnerable to avalanches. Not skiers but...
- 12. Where avalanches usually occur
- 13. When the fracture of a lower snow layer causes an upper layer to fall.
- 14. Avalanches can reach this speed in just 5 seconds
- 16. The... of the snow affects whether or not an avalanche will happen
- 18. Avalanches occur in...weather
- 20. You must always be this... to increase your survival rate from 92% to a greater number. Every percent counts
Down
- 1. Avalanches can be very...
- 4. People get trapped under this easily during avalanches
- 5. Used to study layers of snow
- 7. A hockey team based in Colorado. Also the name of a severe weather event.
- 8. Make sure somebody knows where you are. Give them your...
- 9. If you don't die, you can be severely...
- 11. Wear this when on the mountains
- 14. The survival rate if saved before 15 minutes.
- 15. Chances of death go up by 3% every...after 15 minutes
- 17. What to carry to help free others
- 19. Used to poke through the snow when trapped