FIPS - Tuesday 28th April Avalanche day
May 06, 2009
It was all outside action today with a set of events set up by Manual. He is a Swiss guy that runs avalanche training.
This is Manual the days organiser, he did a great job and made sure we were all Ok. But....he is a wee bit strict.
After training we dug down about 2.5 meters, made a ramp way in for the sledge and did this in about 11 mins.
This is essential to get to the casualty in time.
Casualty extraction:-This explored more of the state of the casualty upon and during recovery how to get them out fast <35>35mins if cold. 
Transceiver training:-This included checking and finding one casualty.
Dog Recovery:-I have seen the SARDA dogs in action, but still it is impressive. They are also playing around with the dog carrying a transceiver and relaying this back to the dog handler by radio, the dog is then told what to do via radio. The dog understood Norwegien, I think they have a way to go with this and honestly the dog knows what to do anyway!
Transceiver training multiple burials:-This was an extension of the above but using the grid pattern, worked OK.
Recco:-This taught us how to use the recco device this is like a hand held radar then picks up those little units sewn in ski wear.
Transceiver range testing:-This was just and exercise to show us how to improve the chances of detecting a poorly operating, deep or distant casualty.
Deep burial techniques and micro box searches:-The first was obvious this is where the casualty may be very deep 3 meters ish. The micro box is a way of finding casualties when there may be a lot in one place, this worked very well and we were able to find 5 units on close proximity.
This is a set of equipment they bury to represent casualties, we had to find all of them. They switch them on and off remoetly very impressive.
This is Manual the days organiser, he did a great job and made sure we were all Ok. But....he is a wee bit strict.We were all split up into teams and headed up the mountain. Then each group attended a class of abut 45 ins duration.
This was a great day. The classes were:-Shoveling and excavating deep in the snow debris.This was a lot more interesting than it sounds and the lady taking the class was very impressive in her knowledge and commitment.
This was a great day. The classes were:-Shoveling and excavating deep in the snow debris.This was a lot more interesting than it sounds and the lady taking the class was very impressive in her knowledge and commitment.
After training we dug down about 2.5 meters, made a ramp way in for the sledge and did this in about 11 mins.
This is essential to get to the casualty in time.Casualty extraction:-This explored more of the state of the casualty upon and during recovery how to get them out fast <35>35mins if cold. Transceiver training:-This included checking and finding one casualty.
Dog Recovery:-I have seen the SARDA dogs in action, but still it is impressive. They are also playing around with the dog carrying a transceiver and relaying this back to the dog handler by radio, the dog is then told what to do via radio. The dog understood Norwegien, I think they have a way to go with this and honestly the dog knows what to do anyway!
Transceiver training multiple burials:-This was an extension of the above but using the grid pattern, worked OK.
Recco:-This taught us how to use the recco device this is like a hand held radar then picks up those little units sewn in ski wear.
Transceiver range testing:-This was just and exercise to show us how to improve the chances of detecting a poorly operating, deep or distant casualty.
This was a deep bury exersize, the tranciever below the surface was about three meters down, by only using his tranceiver and one hit with the probe
He missed by this amount!
He missed by this amount!Deep burial techniques and micro box searches:-The first was obvious this is where the casualty may be very deep 3 meters ish. The micro box is a way of finding casualties when there may be a lot in one place, this worked very well and we were able to find 5 units on close proximity.
This is a set of equipment they bury to represent casualties, we had to find all of them. They switch them on and off remoetly very impressive.They have amazing piste machines there! Some even bring you coffee!
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