Personal Avalanche Protection

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Wol
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You ski nerds may have already come across this, but if not, on a blog called Pruned, generally about landscape architecture, but occasionally not: http://pruned.blogspot.com/2007/11/wear ... homes.html

Will you be supplying to your guests?
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Cool idea, but a bit Dragons' Den. Might give you a few minutes extra, but any avalanche worth its salt would bury you in several metres of snow and ice, having pushed you over the edge, and I don't see how it would protect you - it would just go pop.

A mate of mine runs an avalanche training school so I'll ask him next week what he thinks.

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Post by Martha »

Very nice site, Wol!

I actually have something quite similar - the ABS system which inflates like this:

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Sounds like what James Bond used in the World is not Enough!
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Post by Giddy Goat »

:lol: :lol: I'd love a gadget like that - except I get vertigo!!
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