Most BCUK members live in the northern hemisphere.
This is just my annual plea to play safe and learn about avalanche risks.
As usual, people are dying here again this year, unprepared.
Cutting slopes, tree holes, weak slabs, the usual.
Do a course. Learn to read snow for weak layers.
Buy an avalanche kit and learn to use it. Learn to use your probe.
Never take off your Peipes beacon. Avalungs are a good idea.
This is no sob story. I have Search & Rescue friends who have to dig your sorry a$$ out of 10m hard snow.
Provided that safety is on their side, the urgency is to find your body before the wolves and coyotes dig you up.
You just a big piece of meat. Our SAR people are not happy, the stress poisons them.
I see the avalanches across the valley from my kitchen window.
I'm conditioned now to wonder if anybody got caught in them.
This is just my annual plea to play safe and learn about avalanche risks.
As usual, people are dying here again this year, unprepared.
Cutting slopes, tree holes, weak slabs, the usual.
Do a course. Learn to read snow for weak layers.
Buy an avalanche kit and learn to use it. Learn to use your probe.
Never take off your Peipes beacon. Avalungs are a good idea.
This is no sob story. I have Search & Rescue friends who have to dig your sorry a$$ out of 10m hard snow.
Provided that safety is on their side, the urgency is to find your body before the wolves and coyotes dig you up.
You just a big piece of meat. Our SAR people are not happy, the stress poisons them.
I see the avalanches across the valley from my kitchen window.
I'm conditioned now to wonder if anybody got caught in them.
