You probably already know that when freeriding it is really mandatory to wear all your avalanche
kit, so this is your airbag, your probe, your shovel and of course your transceiver.
Every beginning of the winter I'll go to the avalanche park and practice my technique and
today we're going to see how I do it.
When you put on your transceiver in the morning, just turn it on and leave it on the whole
day, don't try to save the batteries, because you might forget to turn it on.
Check out the battery, I like to have it above 50%.
Make sure you have your phone at least 50cm away from your transceiver.
I try to always check my mates at the beginning of the day to make sure everyone has got his transceiver
on and properly working.
You're good to go.
So training is really simple, either you can hide some beacons under the snow and just
go and look for them or you can do like here in Verbier, you can go to the transceiver park.
So if an avalanche happens it's really important to watch your friend and spot where the last
seen point is, because that's where your search is going to start from.
So at that time, everybody is going to go nuts and you're going to have to keep really
focused and keep to a certain routine
and call for rescue.
So now make sure no one is emitting, everybody goes into search mode, probe in the hand and
we're going for the first phase.
Signal search.
So right now there is no signal, there is a range of 40 metres so we are going to move
in a certain way to try to pick up the first signal.
So once you have the signal, it's called the coarse search, so you are going to follow
the arrow on your transceiver, they're going to show the direction where to go and the
number is going to show you the distance until the victim.
So basically you need the number to go down.
If it starts going back up, turn around and go the other direction.
So we're on 18 metres now, 16, the number is getting lower, I'm good.
So we're getting closer, now we're becoming below ten metres, so now we need to slow down a little bit.
Then the fine search, that's when you reach within 3metres from the victim, get your transceiver
closer to the ground, still pointing in one direction and flat.
So when probing go with both hands and then go 20 centimetres apart in a "escargot" way,
the little snail.
Uh, I can feel something, uh, yes, this is it, we did it.
So here we've got three victims, so you are going to go to the one that has the strongest signal.
So here, we found the first one, ah that's it, he is marked and I am putting my probe
on, leave the others shovelling and 'm going to move on to find the next one.
So remember, in case of an avalanche don't count on the rescue, you can only count on
your friends and they all count on you, so remember that, practice, practice, practice,
have fun and be safe.
Woo hoo.