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They do come in larger versions as well: ACCIDENT REPORT: EAST FORK MATANUSKA RIVER HEADWATERS, ALASKA

I'll come back to the topic of avalanche training in its various guises. Meanwhile, here's a mini-course in slab avalanches. When I left the house today (after three hours of removing an 18-inch snowfall from various surfaces), this woodshed was still clad in an undisturbed blanket of new snow...

From the National Weather Service in Gray, Maine, this afternoon: "THE FOLLOWING MESSAGE IS TRANSMITTED AT THE REQUEST OF THE FOREST SERVICE MOUNT WASHINGTON AVALANCHE CENTER, GORHAM NH. THE US FOREST SERVICE MOUNT WASHINGTON AVALANCHE CENTER HAS ISSUED A BACKCOUNTRY AVALANCHE WARNING. *...

I don't have access to figures for the WMNF. Experience in Southcentral Alaska, where avalanche forecasts have been an on-again, off-again, now on-again feature over the last couple of decades, suggests that it works.

To clarify a couple of points: 1. A daily advisory has been issued during avalanche season for many years by the WMNF snow rangers. 2. I posted excerpts from the last two to substantiate my point about the mechanism that is being set up and the need to pay heed. 3. I ain't no gubmint employee...

Been there, done that final search with the handheld receiver. It is a skill that requires practice to be effective and efficient, not unlike using an avalanche beacon.

Here we go – today's advisory: "Huntington Ravine and Tuckerman Ravine avalanche danger will increase from LOW to CONSIDERABLE today. All forecast areas will have CONSIDERABLE avalanche danger. Natural avalanches will be possible and human-triggered avalanches likely. Careful snowpack...

Kind of makes a person wonder what happens when the user is supine or prone and in extremis ...

Some of us are exhilarated about the upcoming dump of heavy snow preceding this weekend. A subset of that group is already thinking about what it will mean for the avalanche hazard. If you have any plans for the Presidential Range and some other similar slopes, you should also. From the Mount...

There is no fee for PLBs other than the purchase price. DeLorme (recently acquired by Garmin) has a range of plans that allow you to choose the level of service (number of messages per month, etc.) and length of service (month to month, including tailoring of service level by month, or annual)...

I would like to hear from people about their personal experiences with the various emergency locator/communication devices that have been available over the last several years. Not interested in hearsay on this, so it has to be something you have personally observed (including devices owned by...

This. It should be posted on a sign at the trailheads in the winter. I'm solo 99.999% of the time. It's the only time in my existence on this planet that I would be happy to be characterized as "conservative."

No, "they" are blundering. The statute hasn't been changed in this regard. I will send another message - without the Oxford comma, which has been serially missing for some time now in most writing.

Oh, those pesky facts. They're so inconvenient when it comes to polemics: "We’re just looking for help overall. We’ve got a fairly difficult budget ahead of us for the next two years and whatever help we can get from the public will help us provide the public services people want. We certainly...

It is incomprehensible that you continue to say this. There's nothing "unclear" about any language here. There's an inadvertent error in the "correction" sent out by Fish and Game. I brought that error to their attention, and they have since fixed the press release to reflect the actual reading...

This is dead wrong, for the reasons I cite at the top of this thread and immediately above this comment of mine.

This thing is starting to look like Jarndyce v. Jarndyce. !. The protection from buying a Hike Safe Card against being billed, if your negligence results in SAR response costs being incurred by the state, did NOT go away this year. 2. The ONLY change of significance is that DUI operators of...

I was told initially that someone would be getting back to me. That hasn't happened yet. Meanwhile, the original press release has since been edited, to fix a related error on the subject. So, the answer to your question from this ex-lawyer is that there is circumstantial but not direct evidence...

Some of you are on the mailing list for announcements from the newsroom at New Hampshire Fish and Game. If so, you were sent today a reminder to get a new Hike Safe card and then a "correction" asserting that "The Hike Safe card does not exempt the holder from liability for repaying search and...

I'm having a hard time understanding why no one has suggested the very light, very tough, not crazy expensive Alpacka line yet: http://www.alpackaraft.com/packrafts/ In addition to fishing (and hunting), it opens up all kinds of possibilities for getting away from crowds.