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Small anecdote, I saw a girl’s life get saved by someone being smart enough to have an in-reach on them. Snowmobiling accident, got a helo to pick her out of the Idaho backcountry. No doubt in my mind she would be dead or severely disabled had it not been used to contact help.

Instant buy if they built iridium into an iPhone for emergency use… also… if they do that, invest in helicopter and life flight medical companies.

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This year will be year 3 of me learning to ski. 65 days over the last two years. I really, really want to be in the back country.

Thankfully Utah's avalanche center does post mortem YT videos, cause damn that really tempers my drive to get out there.

Snow is so freekin' dangerous.

There is a long discussion on moutainproject about what folks carry in their first aid kits... TBH, given that "stabilize for definitive care" is pretty much the limit of what I can actually do, anything that decreases that time by any amount is probably the best first aid.

I can easily see how this would be much cheaper and better than inreach and similar, even at the low-end of the capabilities.

It's usually too late by the time help arrives in an avalanche scenario. If something happens you could have about 15 minutes to rescue your partner(s). You must NOT go alone. Get a course in snow rescue, find experienced people and go with them. Be alert. Always carry a basic avalanche rescue kit: a modern beacon, a probe and a shovel.

And, if you must, you could get a Cospas-Sarsat PLB in addition to your avalanche beacon.

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