Sunday, December 17, 2006

Davos - Basic of Powder - Free Ride Camp - Dec 2006

Our official free ride course in Davos in the first snow in this season. We learned lot about avalanches, how to rescue within 15 minutes using the transceiver (80 % of death is after 15 min under snow). What exatly we learned? See below:
Have a good weahter window Checking the terrain
What is the exposion?
Checking the transceivers
how to measure steepness using the poles In front of possible DER TOTGEILE DREIER: never do free ride when
1: Avalanche danger scale is considerable (3) erheblich
2: Norht exposion
3: Steepness is > 35