 Poster: A snowHead
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Powderhound, agreed; I'm advocating that shovelling technique is more important than probe length
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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taemo,
If you're worried about having a metal handle and shovel blade in your backpack. Pack them the furthest away from your back with soft bits next to your back. My backpack has a sleeve next to my back for a camelback type 2 litre drinks bladder, then I have goggles and a fleece, then the shovel.
Have a great time.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Patch, I'm with you! So is my wife who ditched the probe and the shovel and dug with her hands to get me out last time - big blocks of snow move more easily that way.
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welshflyer, camelbak next to your back is not always the best idea, especially when it is cold and the water cools down your kidneys and lower back muscles... A decent pack will insulate the water from the back pad - presumably yours does this. I have a couple of pre-camelbak daysacks that have a thin back panel and it has caused me grief in the past.
I have a mate who wore a separate camelbak-pack between his daysack and his back. the water didn't freeze but he ended up with regular back pains.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Powderhound,
Yes the drinking bladder is well insulated and doesn't freeze and the tube is also insulated. I just have to remember to empty the mouthpiece/drink valve to stop that freezing.
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Powderhound,
I put the drink system bladder into a poly bag and then into the back pack. We'v strayed off topic here.
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taemo, I have just baught a Venom pack, It had been lying around at the Cotswolds 'rock bottom'store in Betws y Coed for months, it was priced as a £45 sale item, and after umming and arring for a month I though what the heck just buy it, its cheap anyway, I got to the till and it had been reduced agin to £37!!
I have found that with some carefull packing I can get a mixture of kit in it dpending on what Im up to, remember though its not a day trip sack, more an off-piste but not far from help/slopes kind of pack and its a small volume.
Things that it can carry easily, BCA tour shovel/probe, pair of skins, small camera, repair kit, 1/2 lt flask /bladder, spare pair gloves, shades, goggles, wax and small sunscreen. If I had to take a jacket off and stash it it would not fit.
If I wanted to carry my nikon D70 in its slim fit case, then the shovel would need to be strapped on to the outside as it just wouldnt fit.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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taemo, Glad you are learning now, before you become a statistic.
My probe is 2.4m but my wife's was a 2.1m lightweight one, perhaps I should have thought about this earlier 
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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PhillipStanton, Would that give me more incentive to recover my new expensive tranceiver?? 
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