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	Probes Avalanche Beacons Shovels Ski Packs Altitude Training First Aid Kits Snow Study Snow Saws Safety Accessories Send this page Send this page to your friends who might be interested in reading its content. Bookmark Backcountry Safety Safety Check List Avalanche safety mostly depends on skills but avalanche safety equipment is also essential: • Avalanche Beacon • Snow Shovel • Probe • Survival Blanket • First Aid Kit		» Back to Articles List News Pages: 1 \| 2 June 10, 2005 - How does the wind affect an avalanche situation? In this explanatory article you will find out more about the wind as a significant factor in creating potentially dangerous avalanche terrain. There is also Flash animation that supports the text... read more June 07, 2005 - Avalanche beacon Ortovox S1 sets new standards Ortovox S1 represents the next logical step in avalanche safety gear development - to be able to display positions of multiple victims on beacon's LCD. Thus enhance effectiveness of the rescue actions... read more May 29, 2005 - Children and winter backcountry activities education We came across few interesting pictures drawn by children for 2004 World Ski Mountaineering Championships in Val d’ Aran, Spain. The drawings show even children in very early age can know about backcountry activities quite a lot... read more May 19, 2005 - New trends in avalanche safety Canadian Avalanche Association (CAA) brings together avalanche industry people at its annual meetings every year. Our team attended this year’s meeting as well. The goal was to let people know about backcountrysafety.com web site. Then also to meet backcountry safety professionals and to find out what’s new... read more May 02, 2005 - Spring skiing tips – the sun is hot Ever had a sun stroke? Got sunburned last year? Although, spring is a beautiful time for backcountry trips and ski traverses everyone who doesn’t put skis to the closet before April knows also the other side of spring skiing... read more May 01, 2005 - FAQs and Tips At this point the most of the content of the site exists in 'FAQs & Tips' section. Most common questions and general safety \| Avalanche safety gear \| Backcountry safety tips and questions May 01, 2005 - Why this site exists? There is endless list of things that born this web site: need for improvement, need for learning, respect for nature, passion for skiing, love for mountains... read more May 01, 2005 - Check out our team Backcountrysafety.com team currently consists of two crazy wolverines but we hope to grow a bit in the future. (We mean, the team will grow, not us.)... read more News Pages: 1 \| 2		June 25, 2007 \| read Alex Shockley summits Denali May 19, 2007 \| read Snow avalanche videos from Youtube.com May 9, 2007 \| read Canadian Ski Mountaineering National Rankings 2007 April 27, 2007 \| read Backcountry Safety wins the first ever Canadian Ski Mountaineering Champs April 10, 2007 \| read Alex going for Denali January 9, 2007 \| read All mountains are beautiful, but no mountain is worth dying for January 2, 2007 \| read Avalanche Awareness Days - January 2007 Dec. 12, 2006 \| read Avaluator - how to use it? Nov. 26, 2006 \| read Avaluator - avalanche accident prevention card October 14, 2006 \| read Backcountry Avalanche Workshop 2006 Sept. 24, 2006 \| read RECCO Avalanche Rescue System Sept. 09, 2006 \| read Avalanche beacons - frequency drift - important! August 26, 2006 \| read “Why did he entered the slope when he knew the conditions were dangerous?” August 14, 2006 \| read Rogers Pass the world's largest avalanche control program July 21, 2006 \| read Backcountry avalanche safety - reducing the risk
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			Free backcountry and avalanche safety information for ski mountaineering and general winter travel. Our store also offers a wide selection of avalanche beacons, snow shovels and avalanche probes. Furthermore it offers snow saws, first aid kits, ski packs and altitude training products from brands like Ortovox, Genuine Guide Gear - G3 and AltiPower. Copyright © 2005-2008 backcountrysafety.com. All rights reserved. Skier at the top by Paul Morrison