4 buried inbounds at squaw...

[bakers_dozen]

I hear ya. I wear an avalung while watching TV.

You must have some hella soft couch cushions! Make sure you check for $$$ while you're stuck down there

[Lloyd Braun]

makes me think.....Highland bowl...inbound slide.....no patrol for 30min(if no one is up there)......no beacon.....Big Trouble!

thinking we should wear them too.

[nesta]

Every patrol I've been on searches first for a transceiver signal and then relys on dogs and Recco ( if they have the latter two) and probing to locate buried victims. Your best chance in any avalanche is wearing a transceiver + quick response time. If you have a beacon wear it ALWAYS while skiing. If you never go out of bounds and don't want to spend the $$, spend the $20 or so and buy a pair of Recco reflectors or buy equipment and/or clothing that already build these in and hope that the ski area you ski at is Recco-equipped. I don't care how many bombs and ski cuts and closures a patrol does, they can't possibly control every small pocket or cornice within the boundaries, so be prepared for the possibility of being buried whenever you are in avalanche terrain. Remember the old saying that you can drown in 2" of water!

[skinnyskier]

Fortunately, squaw ski patrol is one of the best in the world and came and rescued 4 victims without beacons successfully. Amazing, Scary, makes you think...

If they're one of the best in the world, why didn't they close the area after it got windloaded so clueless inbounds skiers wouldn't get buried?

[Lloyd Braun]

i rode with patrol on the gondola today and they, 3 of them, promised that every avy search is conducted first with a Beacon! all three were happy to pull theirs out.

FYI

[bklyn]

Well, previously I believed wearing a beacon inbounds would have been nerd overkill. Last Saturday morning in Snowbird on the first run a whomp was heard under my feet and a very small slide carried me on gad chutes about 15 feet. I was with two other people who were ahead of me, but not in the direction of the slide. I got out of there quickly but damn, any bigger and it would have carried me over a band of rocks.

I never experienced anything like it, seriously scared me.

[irul&ublo]

I hear ya. I wear an avalung while watching TV.

That's nothing. I dig a test pit in my living room before even looking at the TV Guide.

[Redskea]

i rode with patrol on the gondola today and all three were happy to pull theirs out.

FYI