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.