Talking Macromedia flash. Wot makes horrible crappy irritating adverts on this 'ere site.
The best bit is even when I do get it onto a windows box I cant run it. It either says "File error" - useful eh! Or "kCRT.dll is not found" despite it being in the sodding directory. Windows, just say "No".
What an awfull piece of software. It could have been done in flash animation without having to install stuff on ones Windows/Mac boxen. Probably be smaller too, and accessible on all platforms which support flash, which is most including things like the IPTV set-top-boxes I used to develop.
Hmm, I seem to remember hitting problems with that thing last year
Never mind, Beth, there's no substitute for getting out there and trying out all the the tests and assessments for yourself under knowledgable guidance - so just wait for your Winter Skills course. (They do cover avalanche stuff, I take it?)
This week in Canada - Hiker, man, 37 found victim to avalanche day after search called off due to high risk. RCMP say a 37-year-old Calgary hiker swept away and killed wednesday afternoon in an avalanche near Canmore mountain was found dead Thursday morning by an avalanche search dog, beneath about half a metre of snow. The search crew had been searching for less than an hour Thursday when they located the body northeast of Three Sisters Dam, south of Canmore. The victim and his hiking companion had scrambled to a high point of Big Sister mountain -- one of the Three Sisters -- and were sliding back down on a snow patch when the avalanche was triggered, said public safety specialists. The victim was further down the slope and was forced over a cliff by the rush of snow. The other man was higher up the slope and managed to roll out of the avalanche. Searchers found a tuque and ski pole in the snow Wednesday afternoon and used a probe to try to find the body, but could not. The search was called off due to darkness and concerns another avalanche might be triggered. Avalanche experts across Western Canada are warning backcountry users should be downright scared about venturing into any terrain that could be covered by an avalanche. Wednesday's death brings the number of avalanche fatalities in western Canada this winter to 14, and the season is less than halfway through. The toll is already slightly above the 10-year average of 13.8 avalanche deaths in Canada per season. All of this winter's deaths, including eight in a snowmobiling accident last month in, B.C., have occurred in Western Canada. Experts with 30 years' experience in the backcountry, say they don't recall such a dangerously unpredictable season for avalanche conditions. The number of major slides released over the past two weeks is "unprecedented," he said. The snow has been unstable during the past week in the area.
The victim was further down the slope and was forced over a cliff by the rush of snow, Field said. The other man was higher up the slope and managed to roll out of the avalanche. Searchers found a tuque and ski pole in the snow Wednesday afternoon and used a probe to try to find the body, but could not. The search was called off due to darkness and concerns another avalanche might be triggered. Avalanche experts across Western Canada are warning backcountry users should be downright scared about venturing into any terrain that could be covered by an avalanche. Wednesday's death brings the number of avalanche fatalities in western Canada this winter to 14, and the season is less than halfway through. The toll is already slightly above the 10-year average of 13.8 avalanche deaths in Canada per season. All of this winter's deaths, including eight in a snowmobiling accident last month near Fernie, B.C., have occurred in Western Canada. Klassen, who has 30 years' experience in the backcountry, said he does not recall such a dangerously unpredictable season for avalanche conditions. The number of major slides released over the past two weeks is "unprecedented," he said. The snow has been unstable during the past week in the area where Wednesday's death occurred, said William Ripley, a dogsled guide.
Another avalanche tale here!! Eeek!
