At some point during the last season a couple of misconceptions arose in the media. One was creep in the snowpack, which was confused with glide in an article which found it's way into Yahoo news as well as at least one ski oriented news site. An amusing aspect of this was that the author, whoever it was, took the opportunity to tell readers that they should take a "Level 1" course to learn about these things. Whether they took such a class is not known of course, but if they did they were probably misinformed on at least this point.

Creep and Glide are two different mechanical phenomena within the snowpack. They are covered in the Avalanche Institute Level 1 course in the modules on Snowpack, but are also simply defined in our glossary.

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