Backcountry Access (BCA) staffers just returned from the International Snow Science Workshop (ISSW) in Lake Tahoe, California. We made two oral presentations and also presented a poster. At our exhibit table, we showed the Tracker2 avalanche beacon and Float 30 avalanche airbag.
It’s always rewarding when one of our products receives strong praise from an “outside” source.
This year, Outside Magazine has named our BCA Squall pack in the “Gear of the Year” awards. This pack has always been one of our favorites; from lift-served backcountry skiing to grabbing a sixer at the store, this pack does it all. It was even used on a week long BC hut excursion last season during testing and I knew after that week that we had a winner on our hands with the new design. To see the review, check out the Outside Buyer’s Guide Winter 2011 and turn to page 94.
I called Ryan… Read more
BCA is featuring rescuers who have used a Tracker beacon to save a life. The following account is from Janina Kuzma.
Monday the 7th of January started off like any other day. I got the call from Todd that the turns were bomber off the back side of Proctor Mountain. So we packed our gear and left. The Avalanche bulletin for that day was considerable in the tree line, and we knew the dangers with the ‘deep slab instability’ within the snow pack. So the game plan was to play in the mellow trees beside the turns from the skiers the day before.
After a 10 km drive we loaded… Read more
BCA held its annual tech rep training in Boulder this week and invited our international distributors too. They learned all the latest techniques with the Tracker2 beacon, Float 30 airbag, shovels, probes, and Stash packs.
Take a journey deep into the mountains of Wyoming with a group of unique characters, as they explore the state with the most rugged and remote terrain in the lower forty eight; a place where the ideals of individualism and freedom that founded the West are alive and well.
From the cattle ranch to the backcountry, the crew will push their mental and physical limits to overcome injuries, wild weather and unforeseen circumstances, in the unskied terrain of remote Wyoming.
With an entirely original score, it will be a movie of exploration, set mostly in towns where more people own an elk rifle than a pair of skis.
Veteran skiers… Read more
Wondering where to schedule your big road trips this season? Here’s a guest blog from Colorado weather guru Joel Gratz of coloradopowderforecast.com. If you’re a stormchaser, then you should bookmark his site and sign up for his email alerts. While his forecast centers around Colorado, keep in mind that La Nina usually means big snow in the Pacific Northwest and Northern Rockies too. We’ll get another take this Friday from Joe Ramey of the National Weather Service. He’ll be speaking at the Colorado Snow and Avalanche Workshop. Stay tuned.
In the movie “Fight club”, the first rule is to not talk about fight club.
In meteorology, the first rule I… Read more
Here’s an inspiring guest blog from WD Frank of Yakima, Washington, who was rescued by his touring buddy, Rick Johnson, last year with a Tracker DTS.
February 25 marked the anniversary of my near-death burial in an avalanche at White Pass, WA, when my ski partner, Rick Johnson, used his BCA Tracker to find my BCA Tracker as I lay face down and unconscious under three and a half feet of snow. His cool nerves combined with our twenty years’ worth of practice saved my life — and I am convinced that the efficiency of the Trackers played a critical role as well. (My device was one of your original… Read more
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