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Avalanche and phone

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roel
Posts: 5 - Karma: 9
it might be a silly question but can they find you in an avalanche just by you mobile signal?
Dec 14 2005 7:50AM
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Flynn
Posts: 1174 - Karma: 10
So much avalanche terrain doesn't have a cellular signal to begin with, burry yourself underneath an insultator and you have even less.

Probabbly about as useful as the Recco stuff, just to find you after youre dead.
Dec 14 2005 8:21AM
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iggyskier
Posts: 10447 - Karma: 10,018
First of all...

wow.






seriously....

wow.



Second, when you are in avalanche terrain make sure to keep your cell phone off because it messes with the signal of your beacon and will make it difficult to find you under the snow.
Dec 14 2005 8:45AM
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roel
Posts: 5 - Karma: 9
thx...
Dec 14 2005 9:19AM
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R.Fahey
Posts: 8602 - Karma: 539
Yeah.... i bought this book called "Snowstruck" and it's totally made me aware that there i sooo much more involved than just goin out. its interesting.
Dec 14 2005 10:20AM
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Logchucker
Posts: 1508 - Karma: 16
Backcountry

A)Get Beacon, Practice lots and lots
B) Take Avy vert classes
c)Learn how to sample
d)learn how to probe
e)Repeat a-d (w/o buying a new beacon)
f)Leanr to read slopes
g)Go with expierenced peoples, and talk to patrollers
h)redo a-g
i)NEVER GO ALONE
j) enjoy BC
Dec 14 2005 10:49AM
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Pklink04
Posts: 5608 - Karma: 392
im sorry, but what is "sampling" i know probing, but i havent heard of sampling
Dec 14 2005 11:41AM
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Spitzer
Posts: 534 - Karma: 10
snow sampling... just don't eat the yellow snow.

It's when you make a snow pit and do tests like checking the probability of a slab breaking loose, checking snow consistancy, etc.
Dec 14 2005 12:50PM
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=nick=
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he probably means check how the snow is, like landings and condition and stuff
Dec 14 2005 1:24PM
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