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Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek

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Re: Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek

#14
The presentation is impressive. May future articles be so well-presented.

The people killed in Tunnel Creek and around our region on the same day were good friends, parents, and people.

This slide, in particular, has attracted so much attention because those involved are professionals and because the event resonated so strongly within the ski media community.

Missing from a lot of this accident's coverage is how very much life the slide victims had lived. We can honor them by living as well as they did.

Jim Jack, head judge for the Freeride World Tour, skiing with kids on the hometown hill: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sQ2gU0OJ30

Those of you at startups may find resonance here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuDR5_qbwPQ

Re: Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek

#16

What if the future of grade school textbooks was this. Learning would be fascinating. What a great design.

I remember a lot of multimedia learning materials in the late '80s and 1990s. Some were good, some weren't, but I don't feel they really improved my education much. The only ones that really stuck with me were more simulation-type ones, not as much these multimedia-text ones. I do recall learning a lot about oil drilling from an oil-drilling simulation game.

Re: Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek

#17
I first read the entire story on the mobile app, not even knowing that it was part of a larger presentation. The writing itself is very compelling, but the format on the full site adds so much.

Tracking the people through the thumbnail images and seeing the different parts of the mountain matched up to the images the story had produced in my head.

It's a testament to the content and the medium that they chose.

Re: Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek

#18
Trying to read this story was really frustrating on an iPhone. I had to keep swiping left and right because the zoom was locked to about double the width of my screen.

It's a shame because, from the sound of the other comments, it sounds like a really nice layout on the desktop. It's a shame they destroyed the mobile experience.

Re: Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek

#20
As an owner of an Avalanche Safety app mobile shop I'd say its amazing to get some of this innovation in to articles like this.

Getting users to think about the judgement and impact of the choices they make when they are seeking this rush is a very challenging. Breaking the mold to make a possibly more impactful presentation is exactly what Avalanche education needs.

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