View Poll Results: What's keeping you from beeping inbounds?
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I always bring my full avy kit inbounds (transceiver, shovel, probe)
10 16.67% -
I always bring just my transceiver inbounds
15 25.00% -
I use a Transmit-Only transceiver Inbounds (a la Pieps Backup)
0 0% -
Sometimes - It is inconvenient to carry (ergonomics)
8 13.33% -
Sometimes - It is too complicated for every day use (turn on/off settings, battery check, etc.)
6 10.00% -
Sometimes - other
19 31.67% -
Never - It is too complicated for every day use (turn on/off settings, battery check, etc.)
0 0% -
Never - It is inconvenient to carry (ergonomics)
0 0% -
Never - other
3 5.00% -
I don't have avy gear.
2 3.33% -
I use an airbag or other safety solution
1 1.67%
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01-19-2020, 02:06 PM #1
What is keeping you from beeping inbounds?
Even though people are hitting areas that might have slide potential,
it seems they don't see it as dangerous as the backcountry
and that belief leads them to not beep inbounds.
Recent inbound rescues have highlighted the need for fast search and rescue.
Oft times, the inbound rescues seem to have even good odds of finding victims alive,
even after probe lines etc., due to better practices
and the better education of what to do in an avy, such as creating an air pocket.
This video really struck home, just how much beeping inbound could help. If a guy can be saved, after 50 minutes,
with just a probe line and an air pocket, then the chance of someone surviving is much better if they were beeping and saved much earlier.
What's keeping you back from beeping inbounds?
OH, MY GAWD! ―John Hillerman Big Billie Eilish fan.
But that's a quibble to what PG posted (at first, anyway, I haven't read his latest book) ―jono
we are not arguing about ski boots or fashionable clothing or spageheti O's which mean nothing in the grand scheme ― XXX-er
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01-19-2020, 02:14 PM #2
Beacons are too big and bulky. The harnesses need to have at least one integrated antenna. I can't be responsible for thinking for myself and want a centrally controlled transponder that can be turned off by a remote signal.
Why isn't this in your other thread?!
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01-19-2020, 02:35 PM #3
I was going to vote until I saw who started the thread.
Commence flinging poo. . .
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01-19-2020, 02:53 PM #4
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01-19-2020, 08:57 PM #5
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01-19-2020, 10:25 PM #6“I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.”
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01-20-2020, 06:53 AM #7"When the child was a child it waited patiently for the first snow and it still does"- Van "The Man" Morrison
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01-20-2020, 08:14 AM #8Banned
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That little charm is almost as cool as your dog. Very neat.
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02-14-2020, 09:46 PM #9Registered User
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I beep always. But my beacon is attached to my pants and I also we're those whilst skiing
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02-15-2020, 09:30 AM #10Banned
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I need to find a pair of bibs with an integrated beacon pocket in the torso/chest area. I've gone back to wearing mine in the harness, as I found the weight of a beacon bouncing around in a thigh pocket to be annoying and very noticeable while skiing. I also wasn't fond of just how much rattling/bouncing around it's able to do in a pocket.
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02-15-2020, 01:40 PM #11
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02-17-2020, 10:37 AM #12
Akin to buying flight insurance. The odds for in bounds avy death the last ten years would be about 1 in 100 million.
Odds of commercial airline death is 1 in 11 million.
Odds of survival in an in bounds burial probably take the odds over 1 in 1 billion.
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02-17-2020, 12:44 PM #13
I don't know why anyone would bother beeping inbounds all the time. I will wear mine only on deep days or if I know the snowpack is particularly sketchy.
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02-17-2020, 02:25 PM #14
What are u all talking about? It’s more dangerous than ever! Especially in Tahoe, and on days like today....
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02-21-2020, 11:45 AM #15
As the number of accidents and fatalities grow in tree wells, a beacon might really help in the search.
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02-21-2020, 12:47 PM #16
where is the option for 'It never fucking snows anymore!'
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02-21-2020, 02:29 PM #17
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02-22-2020, 12:35 PM #18I have been in this State for 30 years and I am willing to admit that I am part of the problem.
"Happiest years of my life were earning < $8.00 and hour, collecting unemployment every spring and fall, no car, no debt and no responsibilities. 1984-1990 Park City UT"
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02-22-2020, 12:42 PM #19
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02-22-2020, 03:14 PM #20
Very well then, carry on.
I have been in this State for 30 years and I am willing to admit that I am part of the problem.
"Happiest years of my life were earning < $8.00 and hour, collecting unemployment every spring and fall, no car, no debt and no responsibilities. 1984-1990 Park City UT"
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02-22-2020, 07:47 PM #21
When my son patrolled at Squaw he was required to wear a beacon with 4 inches or more of fresh or nearly fresh and not previously bombed snow. That was about 10 years ago, may not be current. I don't believe he wore one on other days on his own initiative.
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02-23-2020, 09:30 AM #22User
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02-23-2020, 01:07 PM #23
It has snowed only an inch in the last month. If we got two inches, I might start wearing my beacon inbounds.
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02-23-2020, 01:36 PM #24
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