The Next SummitDec 31, 2023
"For all of us, words matter! Let’s try to call an avalanche transceiver an avalanche transceiver and not a beacon." A critical lesson from the CO SAR Association.
Read it here 👉 https://zurl.co/iSk6
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Get Wild: When is a beacon not a beacon?

It was February 2010 and backcountry search and rescue teams and sheriff's offices across Colorado were getting frustrated. Repeat signals from a personal locator beacon had been received since the previous December in locations from Berthoud Pass to Crested Butte. Each activation had caused the U.S. Air Force Rescue Coordination Center in Florida to notify the sheriff's office nearest the…

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Amo a Sam amatJan 24, 2023

A peculiar brain event has led me to the conclusion that I need a Personal Locator Beacon #PLB sooner rather than later. (I've been stupidly putting it off or taking too long to think it through.)

Have you used one in reality? Know anyone who did? Do you carry one routinely? Does it get in the way? What model do you have, do you wish you had?

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