View Poll Results: Are you ready for backcountry snow travel?
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No tools. Don't need 'em
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Have partial tools, no training.
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Have all the ools but no training (all means beacon, probe, shovel)
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Have training but not all tools
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Have at least basic training and all tools
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Do avalanche rescue as volunteer/professional
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01-02-2006, 01:02 AM #1
Two slides in two days that caught folks
I was just checking in at the CAIC site to plan for my Teus snowshoe trip and found that we had a slide just north of Rocky Mountain Nat. Park yesterday. details here:
http://geosurvey.state.co.us/avalanc...aspx?tabid=399
And there was the one that's still making the CNN hourly loop near Provo.
http://www.avalanche.org/~uac/Accide...s,12-31-05.htm
Looks like the early season snowpack is even less stable than normal this year. Colorado is already at 4 deaths for the season. Don't know where Utah is but it's up by one on 12/31.
Take the time to check the forcast and if it don't look good call it folks. The nice thing about the mountain is that it will be there another day. If it ain't, you got bigger worries than missing a day!
Lets see who has gear for backcountry travel. I'll post a poll and let's open it up for comment/discussion on backcountry snow safety. There's been a great thread going here and on canyoneer/yahoo about snakebites, let's get our heads in the winter survival game.
Don
"Think where man's glory begins and ends and say that my glory was that I had such friends." - Yeats
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01-02-2006 01:02 AM # ADS
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01-02-2006, 10:18 AM #2
Utah had three seperate slides yesterday involving victims. At least one known death, proabaly won't be able to retreive the body until spring because of danger to SAR.
Some info here
http://www.sltrib.com/search/ci_3361603
Some info here on the death
http://www.sltrib.com/ci_3363616
Be careful out there, know before you go
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