Rescue Skills and Kit for Backcountry Touring

Beacon searches for companion rescue practice
Practicing transceiver searches

An expert, in some literature, is defined as someone who has 10,000 hours of practice. Fully 10,000 hours of any activity is a tremendous amount of time. I ski tour day in and day out each winter. Get 10,000 hours of that? Might take some years but it’s possible. On the other hand, I don’t do transceiver searches, mock rescues, and strategizing for how to evacuate injured people day in and day out. These skills get rusty.

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