AspectAvy gives those who travel in avalanche terrain necessary information to make go/no go decisions. It is very easy to see what zones are within the safe slope angle parameters. While nothing can take the place of education and situational awareness. AspectAvy is the first avalanche technology to give objective data to avoid danger zones. While most snow safety equipment helps once you are caught or buried AspectAvy can keep you from being caught in the first place.

If you are looking for an app to help you avoid avalanche terrain completely, then this is great. I get that in a sketchy pwl Colorado snowpack this is the appropriate mindset. However, for backcountry skiers who enjoy stepping out into steeper terrain occasionally and are dealing with problems that are more localized or aspect/elevation dependent, I find the terrain advice much much too conservative (telling me to stay off N facing terrain when the days problem is wet loose on solar aspects for example). I like the concept, and I get why an extremely conservative approach was taken, but I don’t think this travel advice applies to what the majority of BC skiers want, and there is too much nuance and liability to make an app like this work for those cases without a step change in how these algorithms work

I’ve been backcountry skiing for 45 years. Accident and fatalities are a common event among experienced and professional backcountry skiers. It’s clear to me the avalanche training and the backcountry community culture has serious shortcomings. Aspect Avy is on the right track to take the guesswork out of winter backcountry travel. Frank Stern, AIARE Level 2, PSIA, professional engineer.

This is the first tool I’ve come across that is specifically built to tackle the avalanche problem. Mapping apps are a mess with 20 colors telling me what the slope is doing under the snow, this shows what the snow is doing. Love that the risk shading changes depending on snow pack, snow problems, etc. This app is going to change the game!