After finishing up glacier travel and rescue yesterday we moved on to avalanche rescue. For this we had Daniel and Chuck go ahead of the group and set up a scenario.
After the scenario was made we got radioed and skinned up into the scenario where we found a guy (chuck) who had lost his buddy in an avalanche. He said that his buddy was skiing without a transceiver on and there were two backpacks with transceivers in them because his buddy had left his in his pack. We quickly located the two backpacks and got started on a probe-line and found the buried victim.
All and all it took the group something like 12 minutes from the time we came upon the avalanche scene to the time we found the buried victim with the probe pole. Chuck said that it was the fastest he's seen and from my experiences in other avalanche classes and scenarios I have to agree.
From this exercise I learned more than anything how important communication is in a fast moving rescue environment.
-Owen
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