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Winter's coming, and the high tops have already seen the first snow. Throughout the season, walkers, climbers and skiers will be keeping a close eye on reports from the Scottish Avalanche Information Service. So what's it like to work as a forecaster, and what does it take to run this essential resource? Dan Aspel meets SAIS head honcho Mark Diggins.

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Also worth having this app on your phone. I don't think there was a link to this. I seem to recall 'Digger' teaching me avalanche awareness over 30 years ago at the Lodge on a winter ML.

https://www.sais.gov.uk/mobile-app/

Enjoyed that. Though I found there was confusion between Hazard & Risk, compared to other fields of risk assessment; seemed to use Hazard in place of Risk (even saying the Risk was always the same).