Avalanche Search and Rescue: A Backcountry Field Guide One Size One Color

This durable and compact backcountry field guide for professionals and recreationalists alike will help you be the best, most prepared team member possible.This easy-to-read and highly curated quick-reference tool includes leadership and risk management reviews, search strategies, probing and shoveling methods, medical protocols, patient packaging and rigging diagrams, quick reference cards and much more.

It can be difficult to remember and refer to all of the different clinics, classes, and conferences youve attended. This first-of-its-kind guide from Alexis Alloway is the single best resource to help you refresh and remember the many details involved in a backcountry avalanche rescue scenario.Whether you want to strengthen your terrain assessment skills mid-season, or need to double check your patient packaging in the field; whether youre new to a rescue team, or an old vet, this 126 page book will help keep you on your A-Game.

Specs

• Study up early in the season as you transition out of summer
• Refresh yourself mid-season, before or after taking or teaching a class
• Pull out of your pack to double-check your knots and snowpack tests or to jot down field notes
• Waterproof, tear-resistant, spiral bound
• Dimensions: 5.5 wide X 7 tall X 0.5 thick
• Weight: 5 oz