Avalanche beacons
Avalanche safety....
There might be higher risk for avalanche when people ski in back country, outside of ski resorts. I saw many people ware avalanche beacon in Europe even if in a ski resorts.
This is an equipment to identify a location in snow when people meet an avalanche. It is better to ware avalanche beacon when we go skiing in back country.
Also, we need snow shovel and snow probe as well!
Although an avalanche beacon is useful, it is not good enough to rescue people in snow in a short time.
Snow probe and Snow shovel
Once we identify a rough location where a person in snow, we need to have a probe to identify exact location / depth where he/she is. Then we need to dig him/her out. Without a snow shovel, it is very hard to do in a short time. Therefore, snow probe / snow shovel are really necessary to rescue people as well. Basically all member need to carry them.
Snow saw
Snow saw is probably nice to have. I think most of cases, we probable do not need snow saw to rescue from avalanche accident. Since the snow might not be very hard in most of cases. However it is very useful to make a snow cave especially some emergency case in a snow.
Snow cave would be a good shelter to unexpected camp in a snow without a tent.
