How are your avalanche transceiver skills? Learn the phases of the avalanche search in this video from BCA, then go and practice outdoors.
Watch BCA’s Beacon Searching 101:
BCA’s Companion Rescue Series covers “all the steps involved in rescuing a companion buried in an avalanche: the basics of avalanche transceiver searching, probing, strategic shoveling, organizing the rescue, providing first aid, and backcountry evacuation.”
This video is not a replacement for proper avalanche education. Take an avalanche course and practice with your avalanche gear.
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Official Description From YouTube:
Published on Sep 4, 2013
Learn the basics of avalanche transceiver searching with the team from Backcountry Access. BCA in-house sales specialist Andy Wenberg introduces the four phases of the transceiver search: the signal search, coarse search, fine search, and pinpointing (probing). While Andy uses the Tracker2 in this video, the techniques apply to all transceivers.
Before traveling into the winter backcountry be sure to take an avalanche class. For more educational resources, go to http://www.backcountryaccess.com/education
