by Ned Tibbits | Mar 6, 2023 | Mtn Edu
What makes snow, in and of itself, so dangerous to snow-hikers? It is obviously cold (it’s frozen water). The more of yourself you expose to it, the colder you get, leading to hypothermia and death, at the worst, and frostbite (localized soft tissue necrosis)...
by Ned Tibbits | Mar 6, 2023 | Mtn Edu
A small, 2023 creek-crossing Primer for thaw-fed Sierra creeks: I have added a new subset term to my quantitative references to the Sierra snowpack. There have been “drought,” “normal,” and “heavy” winters, but I must add, now, the...
by Ned Tibbits | Feb 10, 2023 | Mtn Edu
Pull the Plug! The baby is dead. The State of California came back this morning to say that, if Mountain Education wants to continue to work within the State Park in the process of providing free public safety clinics, they will have to apply to do so as a Park...
