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I was going to suggest something similar. Typical problems from different regions would be helpful as well as stories of atypical situations as suggested above. How do snowpack and terrain choice relate to one other? How do they typically change or differ in CO, vs AK vs Japan for example?Quote:
Originally Posted by Cravenmorhead
Second this ideaQuote:
Originally Posted by Dromond
copy, gracias todos.
i'm not sure geo-centrism a la what a particular pack is normally like solves the 'state of the pack' problem. both approaches may lack relevance for the broader audience, but i'll give 'er a go.
i do believe there is great value in case studies, and contrasting the normal with the anomalous, and contrasting what is normal vs. anomalous in different zones. copy that.
i'd like to do some accident case studies, but my snowy torrents are on the other side of the pacific and the new e-version seems to be on indefinite wind hold.
please tell me if you think 'special story time' is getting dull. i just haven't done anything particularly stupid lately. will be dipping into the mental archives at some point.
in the meantime, i encourage y'all to drink beer and crank ludwig: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mz8P8D8MdNU
dk
Re geo-centrism, if other listeners are like me, they're at least interested in traveling to other parts of the world to ski, even if we don't have set plans to do so right now. So having a baseline understanding of what a "normal" snowpack looks like in various major ranges is something I'm interested in, even though I've only skied in my home range. I'm only one data point though.
Through episode 3. I think state of the pack is one of the most interesting and unique things in the entire podcast. Don't lose that nobody else does that.
We think completely identical with respect to airbag packs.
I also really like logical fallacies as applied to avalanche decision making.
I like state of the pack, too. BUT, everything else on the podcast is evergreen content. I rarely listen to podcasts as soon as they come out. Oftentimes I'll discover a podcast and download episodes that are months or even years old. So I think as this thing continues to grow, the state of the pack section will be increasingly irrelevant for most listeners.
hrmm, my current thoughts on the 'state of the pack' is that i will go a little easier on what's happening and focus more on how people are dealing with it. i like the global update, but it's really hard to stay on top of and the date stamp on it is a problem.
Maybe make state of the pack a separate offering whether text web page or podcast?
Intuition is the ability to acquire knowledge without proof, evidence, or conscious reasoning, or without understanding how the knowledge was acquired. I work in medicine. In the clinical setting one cant see electrons,
cell membranes, hormones, amino acids and so on. But I believe that studying and internalizing those processes and having internalized that knowledge somehow contributes to a better understanding of how to analyze what signs and symptoms may mean in the patient. I think an analogy can be drawn to the snowpack. It's a little voice in the back of your head saying "whats going on here and why?" Work a little physics into the state of the snowpack.
What can it hurt? My avi educations started with the blue book. Nomenclature has changed, theories evolve, It would be great to hear a little bit about the history and evolution of avi science as well. Carry on!
Bump. Caught up to the present this week and eagerly await the next episode. If anyone on here is still not listening to this, you really should be.
I like state of the pack but agree that it will become increasingly irrelevant as time goes one.
I also like special story time. That segment has great potential to have guests on.
Really appreciate you talking so much about topics that aren't really a part of traditional avalanche courses. It's great food for thought and directly applicable to our actual travels in the backcountry. As you noted in your other thread, we know most of the time what the mistakes are, the crux is modifying our behavior. All your talk on how we think and communicate and make decisions directly influences that.
I just got caught up and agree that State of the Pack isn't very relevant, other than if you use it to talk about either weird or typical conditions for a region and how they factor in to...something.
On a technical note, the audio levels are all over the place. It goes rapidly back and forth between hardly being able to hear you talk and boomingly loud.
Keep it up and I'm looking forward to more.
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Originally Posted by Bean
I literally spent the entire last podcast adjusting the audio.
There is software for this. I want to focus on "Douggy Fresh Pow Thinks about Thinking" not "What did he say? OH MY EARS!"
Sorry, general problem or just with the most recent episode?
I've normalized and compressed E7 and will repost it. Hopefully that addresses the problem.
All but very prominent in 7
Copy, gracias, I'll prioritize that. It's a time consuming problem with weak software solutions, yet obviously very important.
How do you listen? Headphones? Bluetooth to car audio? Bluetooth to X? I ask because, of course, I listen to all the episodes before I publish them, and I have not noticed a 'significant' problem. Maybe I am less sensitive to it, or maybe I need to change my review system.
I am also lazy about the work flow and have not normalized/compressed all the episodes. The feedback is much appreciated. I value positive commentary, but the 'this is kinda fucked up' comments are even more valuable. Content-wise and technically.
I'm listening bluetooth -car
And thank you for the medical training microrant. It is cool to see tidbits from your threads here make it into the cast.
I always listen on headphones.
Prominent level issues?Quote:
Originally Posted by Cravenmorhead
Regardless, I'll be doing some things differently for E8 that should improve the consistency.
I'm with Summit, I seem to adjust the volume a lot. Listening through an aux cord in the car on an iPhone. I thought episode 7 was much better than 5 and 6, however.
I continue to love your humor and references. Listening to 7 tonight with my regular partner prompted us to decide to do a more critical debrief everyday.
It's can be tough sometimes to tell your best friend and roommate that the skin track they're setting fucking sucks (although some incorporated humor usually makes the conversation less awkward). I know we both really appreciated your insight and I think we both took a lot away from it. It was refreshing to hear from a professional that it's completely normal for the debrief to be awkward and sometimes insulting. But that's the reality of constructive criticism. I had just never thought of it from an avalanche decision making perspective
Re audio issues, I haven't had much problem with highs/lows in the recent episodes via headphones, but I dimly recall having some issues with early episodes. I agree with others that it's a boring-but-important detail; I'll only tolerate so much screwing around with volume issues regardless of how good content is.
So its not just me re:audio issues. I always assume its just my shitty van trying to drive up mtns being too loud to hear.
Love the cast though. Please keep it going.
https://soundcloud.com/user-660921194
You can see the big volume spikes in the Soundcloud files. They usually coincide with the musical interludes, at least in the last episode.
"Certainty is the enemy of adaptation." I love this shit. Thanks Doug and please keep it up!
Gracias, E8 is up, it's a shorty. The leveling issues should be fixed. Lemme know if you hear different. cheers...dk
diggin the show,
I highly recommend getting a "pop filter". Amazon sells them for like 10 bucks.
It will remove the loud "P's" and "S's" from your recordings, making it easier to adjust volume level from the listeners. These are typically the spikes you get on the eq, but this doesnt require compression.
E8 I really felt like there was a lot of good stuff, but that there were a lot of times that the series of words you associated with a concept that came in a string were hard to keep track of in my head while driving... like I needed a powerpoint slide to go along with your talk.
Copy all,
I have a POP filter, but it's on the other side of the ocean, I'm currently using a windscreen instead. Was there a specific episode that you found had lots of plosives? Many episodes? Recent episodes? I usually listen on headphones and haven't felt that it was a prominent issue, so my attention to that has perhaps ebbed. I've become aware that the difference between listening on car audio vs. headphones is prominent. The more specificity on technical commentary the better. gracias.
Re the Teamwork episode. I've received additional feedback on the density, lists of lists issues, etc. and I take it to heart. Seems obvious in retrospect. I'll revisit the paradigm in future episodes and see if i can find a web resource to link. Paging LW :)
FWIW, moving forward this season the content will probably be a lot more colloquial and a lot less densely analytical. I hope that helps. I've also had a lot of feedback regarding how valuable the 'story time' is for providing a hook to hang the hard beta on. Copy that.
The podcast is getting harder and harder to keep up with as the pow stacks up and the demands of 'work' increase, but I'm on it. Thanks for your patience and support. dk
Jeez, I should be on retainer.
Try this as a resource:
http://www.avalanche.org/moonstone/D...rk.TAR34.2.pdf
thanks lynn
I think more colloquial is more better. Most people aren't going to be sitting in a quiet classroom when listening to a podcast. Their attention is somewhat divided; maybe they're walking the dog, or driving, or waxing skis, but whatever it is, they probably have something taking away at least some of their attention. And the "story," with some sort of narrative flow and story arc, is one of the most elemental forms of communication we have. Kind of like a song, a story tends to have an internal structure that holds everything together and makes it easier to catch back up if your attention is diverted for a bit. So I think stories generally make podcasts more compelling and easier to listen to / pay attention to -- the more the better.
FYI, I updated all the episodes to fix the leveling issues. also removed the bulk of the music from E1. gonna have to re-record the first few some day. the sound is a little rough.
For the next three weeks, the podcast may be moving into a phase where I'm riffing on user requested content. So, if there's something you'd like to hear me spew on, say so.
Be forewarned, the reason it's moving into that phase is because I have limited time for research and soliciting outside opinions. That's why I use the word spew; content may be a touch raw. Fortunately, that's my forte. It may not be gold, but I can promise it will be shiny enough to grab your attention and hopefully make you think. If I say something you disagree with, please speak up.
Current requested topics at the top of the list are managing persistent instabilities and the role of skier compaction in our assessment process. I've also had a request for advice on how to run avalanche mitigation routes. That's pretty specific and maybe less relevant for a lot of folk, but if I can figure out how to draw parallels with bc decision-making, I'll give 'er a go.
pray for snow...dk
Just listened to ep9 and still thought that the Ps and Ss (basically anything with a lot of treble) kinda spiked in volume. This is listening in my truck with a full aftermarket sound system and FWIW I always struggle with the EQ a little bit to get the treble spikes down and the midrange up, so it may be more my problem than yours.
I'm quite looking forward to the discussion on managing persistent instabilities but I'd be interested beyond that on your thoughts on different management strategies for different avalanche problems in general. Also perhaps some discussion of leadership, as IME many groups tend to end up naturally with an informal "leader" type role - whether it be the most experienced, the one that came up with the trip idea, the one that knows the area the best, etc. I know you've touched on it a few times but any thoughts you have on how a leader can help facilitate communication and engage the rest of the group in decision making would be useful and interesting.
Hey thanks, great content ideas. I'll get them in there. Easy to follow up a PS and DPS discussion with management of other avalanche problems, and the others are mostly easier to manage.
Unfortunately, I won't be able to further up the game on sound quality for at least another few weeks. Still slumming in rural Japan...
I agree that the "leader" group dynamic is something it'd be good to hear about. Particularly if we find ourselves in the "leader" role - how do we ensure we're soliciting information/feedback from the group?
I've tried to listen while doing something other than driving, and I can't quite absorb the info - too much of a good thing? Humans can't really multi-task anyway I guess...Got em loaded up for the next road trip.
If you're shooting from the hip - I'd love to hear your use-cases & experiences with the PST, specific to your mechanized experience if you've been incorporating it....Slab/bed surface properties, depths, weak layers, correlations to ECT results, awkwardness of changing your system to accommodate excavating down-slope (or maybe its just me..)?
Not being able to listen when I'm trying to work is my only complaint. Luckily skis need waxing and other tasks let me listen.
I've never done a PST, but I've seen them on youtube. Shhh, it's a secret.
It must be because you don't have Canadian citizenship ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by covert
Sounds like a when/what/where/why/how on pits and tests might be a good episode or two.Quote:
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