Ad
The National Forest Service Logo
icon-add Observation
Forecasts
Logan Ogden Salt Lake Provo Uintas Skyline Moab Abajos Weather Archives How to read the forecast
Observations & Avalanches
Submit Observation NEW - Observations Explorer All Observations Avalanches Fatalities Place Names Map Archives
Education
Avalanche Awareness Develop Skills On-Snow Courses Resources and Tutorials
Events
Store
About
Contact Who we are Core Values Staff Board of Directors Past Forecasters Sponsors Annual Reports Sign In
Blog
icon-add Observation
Donate / Join
Ad

Blog: Quick and easy avalanche rescue practice

Toby Weed
Forecaster

We all need to take the time to practice with our avalanche rescue equipment... It's easy to do, doesn't take much time,helps to make sure our equipment is functioning correctly, and could go along way towards saving lives in the backcountry.

Here's a short video we did of our practice in the Tony Grove Area yesterday, (12-10-2014)

Comments
Interesting option to use the probe after one narrows down the area before digging. I got a couple of old analog beacons so I can practice single and multi searches at any time.
Nigel
Thu, 1/1/2015
<p>It&#39;s good to practice with the probe, and in an actual rescue situation getting a probe strike before you dig can save tons of time. &nbsp;It really sucks to dig a big hole down next to a buried victim only to have to re-search your excavations with a beacon. &nbsp;The order of operation remains the same in all rescues, and it should in practice. Find the signal, preform a pin-point search(narrow it down), probe for buried pack (or victim), &nbsp;go back to beacon search (pin-point) if you don&#39;t quickly get a strike with your probe, when you do get a probe strike leave the probe in place, DIG strategically, following down the in-place probe...</p> <p>Also, using all your gear in practice checks to make sure it is operational and allows you to practice putting it together in the field... For most of us, it&#39;s best to start the season off doing single searches. &nbsp;Hopefully, this will be the most likely scenario anyway, since we don&#39;t want to expose more than one person to an avalanche path at one time. &nbsp;It&#39;s a good idea though, to increase the difficulty of the scenarios as you practice by going deeper and perhaps adding a beacon&nbsp;or two to the mix.&nbsp;</p>
Toby
Fri, 1/2/2015
<p>Great refresher Toby and Page! &nbsp;Thanks. &nbsp;These topics are also worthwhile discussions while walking on the skin track.</p>
toddleeds
Sun, 1/11/2015
Hi my family member! I wish to say that this article is <br><br> amazing, great written and include almost all significant infos.<br><br> <br><br> I'd like to look more posts like this .<br><br> <br><br> My web site - <a href="http://thaismarthost.biz/?option=com_k2&view=itemlist&task=user&id=155">slankepiller aldersgrense</a>
Paulette
Thu, 7/2/2015