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Every region is painted with its avalanche danger level from the day’s bulletin, on the European five-step scale.
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Its name and danger level open here. Open it further for the day’s avalanche problems and the link to the full bulletin.
The map shows one day at a time. Tap the date for a calendar of the season, coloured by the selected region’s danger.
Search a region or resort by name. Locate centres the map on you. The number is your zoom: tap it to see what appears as you go closer.
Switch the base map, choose what is drawn over it, and set how strongly the danger colours show.
Four lists of what you have saved. Each one has a Show on the map switch.
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Pins places and regions you follow
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Tap ? to name every control on the map, and to ask any sheet what it shows. The tour is in there too.
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Find somewhere you ski to see what Snowdesk can tell you.
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Drag across the elevation profile below. The dot follows you along on the map.
Move along the elevation profile below. The dot follows you along on the map.
Close up, the route changes colour to show the ground under it.
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Each colour is the slope of the ground under your line. A measurement, not a safety verdict: it does not show the slopes above you.
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Upload a GPX and Snowdesk reads the slope under it and lays it against the day’s bulletin. The example is in the “?” menu if you want it again.
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Type where you ski, or pick one of these.
Avalanche bulletins are regional. Tap the highlighted row to view the local conditions.
Avalanche bulletins are regional. Click the highlighted row to view the local conditions.
This is the bulletin: read the danger level first, then each avalanche problem, with where it is and how likely.
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Tap the Share icon, then choose Add to Home Screen. Snowdesk then opens full screen. Downloaded areas read without a signal either way.
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