Eastern faces of "Australia's Alp" (the one, singular) - Mount Feathertop - in ATES rating colours for the first time ever.

Red = extreme, dark grey = complex, blue = challenging, green = simple.

No trees are included in this one, some lower slopes will get downgraded with application of realistic forest cover (if I can find data or lidar of the area)

A story about applications for the ATES in Australian conditions coming soon!

#backcountrySafety #landscapeAnalysis #snowScience

...if you are a land manager or commercial operator in these spaces and this information / understanding, interpreting and *applying* this information would be useful to you, well...

#hireme

If you know people, I'd appreciate a boost. Australia is convenient, however anyplace offering stable income, covering all moving costs, proximity to mountains and being able to buy a house for less than three full lifetimes of work can be considered...

For the frothers, here is the Mt Hotham vs Falls Creek inevitable comparison.

Hotham: mainly challenging / complex terrain

Falls creek: mainly simple terrain

...and Mt Bogong, the other big Victorian [Australia] hill. Viewed from the southeast. The red ring around the base is an artefact of clipping a DEM at 1000 m. I'll fix that soon, this was a test run :D

I want to try and find a forest density dataset for the "real stuff". For NSW I had a lot of lidar so it was easy. Not so much here...