Why?

Last year, my brother's friend died in an avalanche while snowmobiling in the Utah back country. This tragic accident forced me to acknowledge that I hadn't always been careful in my winter recreational pursuits.

Acknowledgements

The National Elevation Dataset - The USGS makes high quality data freely available here. This data was used to create the slope angle maps.
GDAL - The Open Source Geospatial Foundation maintains an amazing Geospatial Data Abstraction Library (GDAL).
The Ubuntu GIS Docker - javimarlop@ has created a docker image that makes creating a GDAL'ified VM a breeze. Check it out here.

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