Avalanche Rescue: How to Use Your Beacon, Probe & Shovel 

If he was first nations this would be on the trending page

start digging slightly downslope of the subject so it makes it easier to shovel snow out and away and you have an area to place subject..

Ask the authorities on avalanche, such as AIARE - Avalanche Institute for Avalanche Research & Education.

When you are buried in an avalanche, it is like being molded into concrete. This would mean that the person probing would have to get the probe right in the mouth of the victim. Other than that, most deaths are caused by asphyxia, not suffocation. Even dense avalanche debris is about 60-70% air, most victims die from rebreathing their own carbon dioxide so it is unlikely a probe would be much help. There are products where you can exhale your carbon dioxide into your bag that increase survivability when buried and also avalanche bags that create a pocket of air by deflating when you are buried.

Knowing the depth is pretty useful, especially on a steeper slope.

I do believe in using the probe but at the same time the transceiver "will"tell you how deep the buried transceiver is.

Take the extra 10 seconds to verify you are digging in the right spot. Never know if you’re wasting time with a beacon that got torn off, an inaccurate reading, or just digging slightly off.

It's a demo bud...

In larger avalanches you can still be buried when wearing an ABS. Shallower avalanches are what they’re perfect for when you’re almost floating along the top of the sluff because you have it on and then you will settle just below the top layer most of the time.

This is such a dumb comment, People like you should never be out with anyone in the BC. AND not everyone can afford $1500 backpack dummy

Who can’t spell “use”?!