Summary: During the day, Jenna Malone is a physicians assistant, but she moonlights as a ski patroller at Alta, a Powderbird guide, and an AAI instructor. At this fall's USAW, she gave a presentation on why avalanche decision making is more like poker than chess. The difference is in the levels of certainty and information available to the players. Inspired by champion poker player Annie Duke's book Thinking in Bets, Jenna discusses how we make decisions in avalanche terrain, when the stakes are our very lives.
