Whatever. I an not cavalier aboout riding in avy conditions.
The people I ride with would say so too.
I spend plenty of time on avy education, teaching children avalanche education and educating myself about recognizing the dangers. I spend two weeks a year with 12 year old kids in the classroom educating them about winter and snow safety and then they get two full days in the snow.
I dig pits when I ride. I stay off the hills when I dont like the conditions. Hell, I've even stayed HOME when I didn't like the conditions.
I wear my beacon 100% of the time. I put one on my kid when he's riding his 120 to the warming hut at Lolo Pass (thats a 10 mile meadow ride). I'm about safety and knowing the conditions before I go.
I'm the only person on here who gets grief for not buying a thousand dollar backpack? Seriously?
I'm being treated like the guy who won't buy a beacon. I own two beacons, shovels and probes...but I'm the only one in my house that goes into the backcountry.
If I wear an avy backpack, does that mean I will be cavalier push the envelope a little too much?
Maybe wearing that backpack, FOR SOME PEOPLE, of just a bandaid for stupidity.
I think you are barking up the wrong tree with me. The problem isn't with me. It's with the guy who highmarks a stuck rider, or the guy who won't buy a beacon, shovel and probe, our the guy who buys it but doesn't learn it or won't wear it, or the guy who buys an avy pack and ignores the avy conditions because he thinks his bag is going to be what saved him.
Whats worse than that??? The guy who gets in an avy and doesn't think a mistake was made somewhere among the line.
If a human is involved in an avalanche then a mistake was made, no matter what he spent on his equipment.
