Learn essential avalanche transceiver maintenance tips from industry experts. Proper care ensures your beacon works when ...

UMA instructor explains how to search for someone using an avalanche beacon. If your partner disappears in an avalanche, you will start a signal search where you move in a zigzag pattern down the ...

The commercial guides used avalanche beacons – radio tracking devices worn by skiers – to identify the area where the skiers were likely buried but were unable to reach them because they were ...

Guides from a commercial heli-skiing operation attempted to locate the skiers using avalanche beacons to identify their location. The beacons estimated that the skiers were likely buried in snow ...

Experts say three pieces of gear are essential: an avalanche beacon or transceiver, which sends location signals to others; a shovel to test snowpack or dig out companions; and a thin, folding ...