New Upgrade to Avalanche App from the Canadian Avalanche Centre
For backcountry skiiers and riders in Canada
The new feature, called the Observer Network is the latest upgrade to the CAC app.
The Canadian Avalanche Association (CAC) has recently updated their mobile app. For those of you who use the mobile app, you know how convenient it is to have the latest avalanche forecasts on your phone. The app is even better now with an upgrade which allows users to submit and share observations from the field. Not only can you share conditions reports, you can also share photos. No doubt this will be tremendously helpful for backcountry users, to have quick user observations accessible right from their phones.
The new feature is called the Observer Network and is the newest upgrade to the app, CAC Mobile. With the Observer Network on your smartphone, you can share your photos and comments with other backcountry users and the CAC’s forecasting team in Revelstoke. Once a photo is uploaded to the network, it will be geo-tagged and pinpointed on the app’s map for everyone to see.
Google Basemap provides familiar navigation. It will detect your location, and you can access the latest bulletins for your area from there. Just like before, each region includes an avalanche summary, snowpack summary and weather summary. The new feature, the Observer Network, works from everywhere in Canada, and anyone can submit observations or photos, no matter how much or how little avalanche experience they have. Observations are filtered by date.
To submit or view reports, you will first have to open an account with CAC.
This feature should go a long way in giving the latest insights to current avalanche activity, and will be very quick and convenient.
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