i know beacon drills are a part of avvy 1 but what an hour? 2?
i'm talkin 24 to 36 hours of beacon and probin time in a park doing multiples
understanding flux lines different alignments how your particular beacon deals w/ each.
beacon parks rock props to bca and the sar's and resorts that fund them
if you work at a ski resort these mentors and partners in addictions are pretty easy to find.
a few trollers and the snow safety bros did a lot of mentoring for my crew
i'm not sayin formal avvy instruction isn't worth it
or excessive safety sessions matter
touring on high danger days or solo is worth it
nor am i saying
i'm some kind of expert and my ways right way or the gear that works best for me is what will work for you.
you nailed it w/ the everyone from bc noobs to experts who wrote the books like brucie to
uber bloggers like lou and the straight chuter done fucked up and made mistakes,
and will probably make more.
leavin this here for clueless beyond a shadow of a doubt dude or anyone else who believes the 96% survival rate bullshit gear manufacturers are feeding them, or youre just gonna pull the cord ride out a slide deflate your bag
and ski away
http://utahavalanchecenter.org/avalanches/16589
i didn't know craig personally but the wasatchs a small range and you cross skintracks/trailheads w/ a lot of the same peeps out doing it every day.
so you find yourself exchanging pleasantries and snowpack info w/ the same peeps
you couldn't have meet a nicer more professional knowledgeable stud.
lost another friend/coworker on kessler the season before
had a boatload of formal avvy edjumacation and a few seasons of a great stabile deep snowpack that allowed him to ski a lot of wasatch classics, which he used to find enough stability to justify boarding the slope that killed him.
interesting that the 4 members of that indecent hooked up through tgr and this presents interesting group dynamics.
tour a bit w/ one of them.
his account of the indecent is also on the uac site.
in that situation his airbag came in handy to signal the sar chopper to their location.
but wouldn't a done a damn thing for alec.