 Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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With an ABS rucksack I would hope the balloon thing was directly over victim (or under or beside them). Any other place means they are no longer wearing the rucksack and its safety properties are lost. Or do you refer to another of the safety devices that is like a balloon at the other end of a piece of rope that is attached to the victim?
An ABS rucksack is not ideal in all cases. On exposed rocks it may be better to risk burial rather than floating high for a huge distance. Also the ABS rucksack relies on you remembering to pull the handle! And that relies on your remembering to fit it before being exposed. A transceiver is always worm and operating.
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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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Adrian, the current ABS sacks we used in January had the handles permanently attached, but covered by a Velcro strap when not required. This was easily moved to be "ready for action". achilles, was the transceiver a "Peeps" by any chance?
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Or a Pulse?
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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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Yoda, I have notiuced that you can't actually attach skis to those ABS bags tho .. please correct me if I'm wrong. If this is the case then this is a major flaw
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rob@rar, yup. It was. Chatted to the bloke this evening. He has something like 3 transceivers. He experimented with them all, and decided the Pulse was easiest to operate as an amateur. From his description of the Pulse as he described it to me this evening, I can see his point.
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plectrum, I'm ashamed to say I didn't notice that as we only did shortish "boot ups" where we could shoulder the skis  But yes that could be a big problem. The other one is the flying question which was discussed on another thread a while back - was an answer to that forthcoming?
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rob@rar, achilles, totally agree: found the Pulse very easy to use straight from the box (for a single burial, at least)
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achilles, I have a Pulse and from my very amateur fumblings with a couple of different transceivers it was the easiest to use, especially for multiple burials.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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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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| plectrum wrote: |
| Yoda, I have notiuced that you can't actually attach skis to those ABS bags tho .. please correct me if I'm wrong. If this is the case then this is a major flaw |
I'm 99.5673% sure you can (at least on certain models). Only skinned (not booted) up since getting my ABS bag this year but remember mounting a pair of skis diagonally across the back when I tried it on in the shop.
bottom left pic
http://www.bergsport-welt.de/product_info.php?cPath=38_100&products_id=958
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A serious message in here for all gadget guru's - you need to be taught how to use transcievers, just taking them out of the box and strapping them on is a pointless exercise. Alas, I suspect that there may be many owners who have done just that....
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You know it makes sense.
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OF course you can attach skis...seen two people do it with ABS bags at least...
I'll find a pic if you want. Never seen them A- frame tho'
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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| JT wrote: |
| Never seen them A- frame tho' |
Tieing skis to the sides of an ABS bag would be counter productive as the balloons burst through flaps on the sides. The group of six small pictures on this page of the ABS website show where the balloons come out of the rucksack.
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Poster: A snowHead
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A serious message in here for all gadget guru's - you need to be taught how to use transcievers, just taking them out of the box and strapping them on is a pointless exercise. Alas, I suspect that there may be many owners who have done just that....
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Very sensible and sadly true was with a group this year and first thing the guide did was a transciver test and buried his, taking everyone in the group 1 by one out of sight to find it 3 of the 8 of us found it 2 couldnt use the transcevier at all and the otherw where way of in their searching.
Guide told them all they had lines for homework 100 times I must learn to use my transciver 
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