Ep. 716: Making Winter Backcountry Adventures Safer - Ethan Greene
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2021
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Ethan grew up in Boulder, Colorado, and had to learn the ins and outs of backcountry safety at an early age in order to enjoy time in the mountains during the winter.
Fast forward a few decades and Ethan has been the Director of the Colorado Avalanche Information Center since 2005 and knows, probably better than anyone, the importance of what they do every day.
When your job involves keeping folks out of life-threatening danger, everything you do has to be done Without Compromise. Today’s episode is all about Ethan’s story, what he’s learned, and what you need to know to stay safe doing backcountry adventures in the winter.
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| 0:00.0 | You know, it's one of the nice things about my job and some of the other jobs here at the center is that, you know, we do get to focus on avalanches year round. |
| 0:08.0 | And in the summer, that sort of switches from collecting data and really understanding what's happening right now to more sort of planning ahead for like what the program is going to do. |
| 0:33.9 | Hey folks. |
| 0:37.3 | I know I did something a little bit dumb yesterday. |
| 0:38.2 | I didn't post a Thursday episode. |
| 0:40.3 | How could I forget that? |
| 0:42.0 | Oh my gosh. |
| 0:43.5 | It's been a wild couple weeks. |
| 0:45.1 | I'm not gonna lie, it's been a wild couple weeks. |
| 0:46.8 | Very, very blessed and very, very good things, |
| 0:50.1 | but boy, it's been a, it's been a lie to try to keep up with for sure. |
| 0:53.4 | I'm not gonna lie i i was not able |
| 0:55.3 | to fit in putting in an episode yesterday but it kind of works out because today on without compromise |
| 1:01.9 | my other show we had a kind of kind of a kind of like an you know an interview with um with just someone |
| 1:08.0 | with something really relevant right now we know we have a lot of backcountry |
| 1:11.0 | skiers that listen to this show, a lot of adventures in general. And so on that show today, |
| 1:16.5 | we interviewed Ethan Green. He's the director of the Colorado Avalanche Information Center, C-A-I-C. |
| 1:22.9 | And so we wanted to interview him and talk about, you know, kind of how crazy the season of back |
| 1:27.1 | country has been. There's been a lot of fatalities, unfortunately, and that's probably due to COVID and people being forced kind of, you know, out in the back country with skiing. You know, you can't just, they can't pile people into ski resorts right now. It's much more limited. So we wanted to, you know, talk about, you know, how to keep people safe, what they should do and some of his experiences and how he got the job in the first place. He's been there for a while. But I thought it was a pretty interesting conversation. I hope you do, too. And also for anyone planning to go out there right now, you know, there's still a few months left of this ski season, and it's still very dangerous. There was someone |
| 2:02.5 | unfortunately had a fatality in Colorado just just a few days ago. So if you're going out, |
| 2:07.6 | please be careful. Please stay safe and please make sure you use resources like CAIC to be as prepared |
| 2:13.8 | as possible, no matter where you live. And also, it is with athletic brewing. That's my day job. |
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