How We Catch Avalanche Debris to Reduce Highway Closure Times
If we can “catch” some avalanche debris, we can “release” you that much sooner to travel through the area and get to your destination.
If we can “catch” some avalanche debris, we can “release” you that much sooner to travel through the area and get to your destination.
“Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things.” – Vernor Vinge, author Rain… Wind… The weight from a layer of fresh snow… Warming temperatures… It doesn’t take much to break the bonds that hold
The Kootenay Pass avalanche team wanted to shorten road closures due to avalanche control, because at the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure our biggest drive is to keep people and goods moving efficiently and safely along BC highways. When the new avalanche explosion hardware and software were installed in 2015, BC became the first Gazex system user in the world, to not only suggest this change, but to incorporate new software successfully into an existing system.