"Backcountry | AvalancheonX Backcountry, a navigation and discovery app for outdoor adventurers, today released 18 new Avalanche Terrain Exposure Scale (ATES) zones, expanding ATES coverage across nearly 15 million additional acres of the United States, providing backcountry skiers, splitboarders, fat bikers, nordic skiers and other snowsports enthusiasts with a new way to visualize avalanche terrain in popular backcountry zones. New zones can be found in Washington, Colorado, Montana, Wyoming, California, Oregon."
"As backcountry skiing and snowboarding participation continues to grow, onX is on a mission to equip people with the best possible tools to make smarter decisions. In a sea of ever-changing variables like weather and snowpack, there's only one variable that remains consistent throughout the season: terrain. By expanding our ATES coverage to some of the most popular terrain across the country, we're giving skiers and snowboarders one more tool to make better decisions,"
"Originally pioneered and developed by Parks Canada in 2003, ATES is a classification that assesses 11 different terrain inputs, including slope angle, starting zones, runout zones, forest density and more. By working in tandem with Alaska-based researcher John Sykes, onX Backcountry is the only digital platform in the United States that provides this tool. Sykes' algorithm (autoATES) analyzes terrain in popular winter regions in onX Backcountry."
onX Backcountry released 18 new Avalanche Terrain Exposure Scale (ATES) zones, expanding coverage across nearly 15 million additional acres in Washington, Colorado, Montana, Wyoming, California and Oregon. The ATES layer color-codes mountain terrain into five ratings based on potential avalanche exposure and complements local avalanche forecasts to help users plan outings. The ATES classification assesses 11 terrain inputs such as slope angle, starting zones, runout zones and forest density. onX Backcountry is the only U.S. digital platform offering ATES by integrating Alaska-based researcher John Sykes' autoATES algorithm and collaborating with local avalanche forecasters to refine classifications.
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