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Thread: guide vest, patrol vest.
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02-19-2019, 06:44 PM #1
guide vest, patrol vest.
looking for a pack-vest, the TNF guide vest or patrol vest ( depending on the year) is the only one I am familiar with.
looking for input on similar products from other brands... and Go!Growing up I was a very technical skier at a tiny ski hill, now when I go back, I just take the whole thing in ... with flexion, then extension. And yeah I am over it.
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02-19-2019, 06:59 PM #2
Let me look, I think I have one hanging in the way back of the closet.
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02-19-2019, 07:07 PM #3
Dakine Poacher vest is nice, prefer it to the TNF.
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02-19-2019, 07:09 PM #4
Scratch that, it’s gone.
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02-19-2019, 08:31 PM #5
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02-19-2019, 08:36 PM #6
^those have avy tool pockets?
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02-19-2019, 09:07 PM #7
Check out What Vests...stumbled upon these guy through FB....rode a lift with a guy that had one...he liked it.
https://bighollowdesigns.com/collections/whatvests
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02-19-2019, 09:27 PM #8
while you were here typing that suggestion I was at the site. Telepathy perhaps. They do look pretty good. Dakine poacher is looking promising, but out of stock wherever I looked. dakine has the heli vest which looks cheap anyone with first hand knowledge?
dakine also has one that looks exactly like the whatvest. anybody have any info on that one? I also found the Ogio Flak jacket but it looks really cumbersome?Growing up I was a very technical skier at a tiny ski hill, now when I go back, I just take the whole thing in ... with flexion, then extension. And yeah I am over it.
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02-19-2019, 09:41 PM #9
Volcom makes one as well:
https://www.volcom.com/products/iguchi-slack-vest-2
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02-19-2019, 09:42 PM #10Registered User
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for the up wouldnt a vest run kinda warm ??
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02-20-2019, 06:44 AM #11Registered User
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02-20-2019, 07:04 AM #12
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02-20-2019, 07:18 AM #13
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02-20-2019, 07:33 AM #14
That Volcom one looks like a nightmare of pockets/zippers
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02-20-2019, 09:00 AM #15
That’s when you go patroller style, and use small lengths of rope, or cord to give the shovel backpack straps, and ski strap your probe to it. This used to be the norm for patrollers at Squaw on higher avalanche danger days, so they didn’t need a bulky pack.
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02-20-2019, 09:17 AM #16
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02-20-2019, 09:52 AM #17
That's a pretty nifty idea
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02-20-2019, 10:30 AM #18
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02-20-2019, 10:31 AM #19
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02-20-2019, 11:06 AM #20
I’ve never had that be a problem, and I’ve used that set-up to dig a lot of pits. I’ll say that’s an old picture I dug up, since I took it I moved the straps to the upper holes on the shovel. That made it a little cleaner for digging. I have to take the probe off for digging to get a good grip on the shaft. If you don’t knot the webbing tightly on the shovel part of my set-up it’s easy to take the webbing off.
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02-20-2019, 12:08 PM #21
A great way to break your back. Stupid idea imo.
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02-20-2019, 12:34 PM #22
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02-20-2019, 10:42 PM #23
guide vest, patrol vest.
The closest example I can think of is of a mtn biker that fell on his pump (that was in his pack) and fractured something in his back-
https://m.facebook.com/eddy.king.58/...796510/?type=3
Doesn’t seem a stretch to me that if you fall with something sold directly on your spine it’s not going to do you any good, but each to their own!
I’ll stick with keeping the hard metal tubes away from my midline spine, and behind some padding.
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02-20-2019, 10:45 PM #24
guide vest, patrol vest.
I work patrol and when I used to use a vest (with a shovel pocket) I actually used to fold up a SAM splint in such a way as to add more padding in between my back and my probe/shovel.
Gone back to a pack these days as it’s more practical for me personally.
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02-20-2019, 10:49 PM #25
Yeah, I patrol too and everyone I work with carries their shovel and probe that way, and I’ve never heard of an injury from it. I guess we don’t fall flat on our backs that often.
Q: 40 people in a room at a party, how will you know which one is a patroller?
A: They’ll tell you.
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