VIDEO: Avalanche Rescue – Probing and Shoveling 101 Brought to you by SCARPA Backcountry Week This is the third installment of my highlighting Backcountry Access’ Avalanche Safety videos for SCARPA Backcountry Week. In the first three videos, we looked at single and multiple burial avalanche search and rescue techniques with BCA transceivers. In the next two, we will look at probing and shoveling. There have been 16 recreational […] Avalanche Mike Bartholow | February 11, 2021 0 Comments
How Much Time Do You Really Have to Live Under an Avalanche? The more time that passes when you are buried in an avalanche, the lower your chance of survival. The actual statistics of the survival times of those buried by avalanches is shocking. According to the Colorado Avalanche Information Center, if you are full buried for: 0-10 minutes you have a 90% chance of survival 11-20 minutes you have a 36% […] Avalanche AvyBrains | April 3, 2020 0 Comments
Why is Avalanche Safety Gear So Expensive? The gold standard of avalanche safety gear is a beacon, which searches for a radio signal, a shovel—which digs, and a probe, which is long metal, collapsable stick, that you use to search for a burial victim under a fresh mountain of snow. These are all products that you hope you never have to use. But a standard-issue kit like […] Brains Martin Kuprianowicz | July 30, 2018 0 Comments
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