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!
...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...
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...
Ohai the Ramshead range and Thredbo and surrounds. Here's your ATES rating.
Wait - but Thredders is gnarly! Yes, and also kinda.
In 2023 or 2024 a size 1 skier released slab let go right about where the last L in leatherbarrel sits. Sub 30 degrees, skier crossed a small convex terrain zone on a wind slab sitting on frozen crust. The slab popped, nobody injured.
More NSW locations coming! Also a tree proxy turned up for Vic, so Hotham might see a downgrade in gnarliness...
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