Every time we go out in the snow, we have to wear our transceivers, and our guide checks to make sure he can receive our signal. In our backpacks, we all have shovels and probes to locate and unbury someone in the event of an avalanche.

One day, we did an avalanche training exercise.  Ivo, our guide, buried a transceiver tuned to “send” position in the snow. We took turns individually tuning our transceivers to “search” mode and finding the buried transceiver. Once it was found, that person would bury it for the next person. 

I strongly hope we don’t face an avalanche, and I’m glad we have had a bit of training and preparation.