Why is Avalanche Safety Gear So Expensive? The gold standard of avalanche rescue gear is a beacon, a shovel, and a probe—three products you hope you never have to use outside of a beacon park. A standard-issue kit like this will almost always set you back at least a few hundred dollars—$333 is the cheapest one I found on snowinn.com, and that’s a bargain. Avalanche airbags are […] Brains Martin Kuprianowicz | August 13, 2021 4 Comments
Avalanche Safety Check with SCOTT Sports Brought to you by SCOTT Sports Beacon, check. Probe, check. Shovel, check. Touring partners, check and check. Safe snowpack with no red flags… check? It has been unfortunate that the start of the 2020-2021 winter season has been riddled with avalanche activity and the news of multiple deaths in every major winter state. Is this just because we have more […] Avalanche Alex K | February 23, 2021 0 Comments
How Well Do You Know How To Use Your Avalanche Beacon? | Part 2: Multiple Burials Mike Bartholow | February 11, 2021 Likes Tweets 0 Comments
Ortovox Launches New Avalanche Beacon with Voice Navigation Dominic Gawel | February 4, 2021 Likes Tweets 0 Comments
Electronic Noise: How Your Smartphone May Affect Your Avalanche Beacon’s Performance Avalanche transceivers are the most important piece of gear we use in the backcountry. The lives of us and our partners rely entirely on our beacons working well. One of the things that may interfere with the proper function of a transceiver is electronic noise. Related: Avalanche Beacons: Where’s The Best Place To Wear Them? Essentially any battery-powered device causes […] Avalanche Jason Ringenberg | January 19, 2021 0 Comments
Monarch Pass, CO Report: Perfect Trees, Sun, and Stoke Brought to you by Monarch Mountain Report From January 1, 2021 Powder and sun is the best way to start a new year. Today Josh, Micah, and I toured some low-angle terrain on Monarch Pass. We did 2 laps on Perfect Trees and one lap on Snowstake. We bailed on our plan to summit and ski Clover Mountain after evaluating […] Conditions Report Dominic Gawel | January 1, 2021 0 Comments
Free Avalanche Beacon Training Park Near Vail, CO White River National Forest and the Colorado Avalanche Information Center (CAIC) just installed a new beacon training park just off of the I-70 near Vail, CO. The new training park gives backcountry users a free and convenient location to practice avalanche rescue. Users need to provide their own avalanche rescue equipment: a beacon, shovel, and probe. The training park is […] Avalanche Dominic Gawel | December 26, 2020 1 Comment
Colorado Backcountry Guide Service: AIARE Avalanche Rescue Course The Colorado Backcountry Guide Service is based out of Crested Butte, Colorado, and offers a variety of backcountry trips including avalanche education. They are an AIARE (American Institute for Avalanche Research and Education) provider. Their Avalanche Rescue Course is a great intro to avalanche rescue and is now a prerequisite for AIARE Level 2 Courses. Related: Where and How to […] Avalanche Dominic Gawel | December 21, 2020 0 Comments
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