Zacs
Supporting Vendors
- Joined
- Oct 31, 2006
- Messages
- 278
- Reaction score
- 137
- Location
- Too far from the mountains!
- Website
- www.zacstracs.com
Change of plans...rider didn't intend on climbing...chose not to wear beacon...now what?
Pretty freaky. Despite a few broken shovels, poor quality probes and some unequipped riders, this group from Utah (Mar4/12) worked very hard and successfully delegated searchers to...
Everything happens fast on a sled. We have to think faster than our track!
It is so easy to let our guard down...it happens all the time and usually we get away with it...but sometimes we don't.
The sledders that are interviewed in this clip remind us that...
Remember that
recent avalanches are
Warning Signs that
MUST NOT BE IGNORED !
Don't get me wrong. Lots of things were done right by this group: one on the slope at a time, spotting from a safe location, multiple spotters with gear and training, quick, decisive rescue actions with great communication and delegation, but it looks like a recent avalanche to the viewer's right. Were there other signs? Would a decision system, such as...
Be alert to the snowpack around you and under your feet.
It doesn't take much time to stop and really scour the slopes within visual range. Even if you are not planning to....
Forecasters with the Utah Avalanche Center explain their findings from a fracture line snowpit at the accident site. Their comments about an avalanche path reloading on...
The key is top notch group management and situational awareness by ALL MEMBERS of your group. Not sure what we mean by this...get yourself into an AST1 OR 2 class ASAP!
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Zac's Tracs - Training Schedule
For more details just click on the town below
March 17 - - AST1 Classroom Theory Taught through Video Conferencing
to view Zac's Schedule for 2012-13
Pretty freaky. Despite a few broken shovels, poor quality probes and some unequipped riders, this group from Utah (Mar4/12) worked very hard and successfully delegated searchers to...
Everything happens fast on a sled. We have to think faster than our track!
It is so easy to let our guard down...it happens all the time and usually we get away with it...but sometimes we don't.
The sledders that are interviewed in this clip remind us that...
Remember that
recent avalanches are
Warning Signs that
MUST NOT BE IGNORED !
Don't get me wrong. Lots of things were done right by this group: one on the slope at a time, spotting from a safe location, multiple spotters with gear and training, quick, decisive rescue actions with great communication and delegation, but it looks like a recent avalanche to the viewer's right. Were there other signs? Would a decision system, such as...
Be alert to the snowpack around you and under your feet.
It doesn't take much time to stop and really scour the slopes within visual range. Even if you are not planning to....
Forecasters with the Utah Avalanche Center explain their findings from a fracture line snowpit at the accident site. Their comments about an avalanche path reloading on...
The key is top notch group management and situational awareness by ALL MEMBERS of your group. Not sure what we mean by this...get yourself into an AST1 OR 2 class ASAP!
__________________________________________________________________________
Zac's Tracs - Training Schedule
For more details just click on the town below
March 17 - - AST1 Classroom Theory Taught through Video Conferencing
| March 17 | Chinook's Edge Community AST1 Classroom Session |
| March 23-24 | Best Western AST1 Class & Field Program | |
| March/April 21 | Clemina Creek AST1 Field Session | |
| April 14 | Hi Line Polaris Suzuki AST1 Class & Rescue Workshop | |
March/April 21 | Golden, BC | Quartz Creek AST1 Field Session |
to view Zac's Schedule for 2012-13
