Avalanche Beacons & Backcountry Safety with BCA Co-Founder, Bruce Edgerly

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Arts, Design, Skiing, Snow, Snowboarding, Sports, Outdoors, Bike, Technology, Gear

4.9 • 809 Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2019

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Avalanche beacons might not be as sexy as other ski & snowboard gear, but their proper use and design can be the difference between life and death. So we sat down with the co-founder of Backcountry Access, Bruce Edgerly, to talk about avalanche transceiver design, backcountry safety research, and the most important — yet often overlooked — aspects of a rescue.

TOPICS & TIMES:

BCA’s transceiver design philosophy + a new Tracker (1:21)
Improving backcountry strategy & increasing your safety (7:24)
Scenario: multiple burials (13:59)
Ski media & backcountry safety (16:28)
How old is too old when it comes to transceivers? (18:50)
The changing backcountry scene (20:31)

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, welcome to another episode of Gear 30 on the Blister Podcast Network.
0:09.9	I'm Sam Shaheen, a senior editor at Blister, and you can check out everything we're doing
0:13.6	and reviewing over at blisterreview.com.
0:17.6	Today, I'm talking to the vice president and co-founder of Backcountry Access, Bruce Edgerley.
0:22.4	We talk about avalanchevers, rescue strategy, and the subtle art of keeping high-tech
0:27.2	products like transceivers as simple as possible.
0:30.2	I learned a lot talking to Bruce, so I think you will find our conversation interesting
0:33.9	and informative.
0:35.3	Let's get to it.
0:40.9	I'm Sam Shaheen. I'm a senior editor at Blister,
0:47.5	and I'm here with our audio engineer, Luke Alley, at BCA headquarters in Boulder, Colorado,
0:53.1	with the vice president and co-founder of BCA, Bruce Edgilly. Did I get all that right?
0:55.5	Correct. Yeah. How are you doing the day, Bruce?
1:03.0	Great. Yeah. Except I'm not skiing. Yeah, me neither. What's up? For the first time in like 10 days.
1:12.4	Wow, you must have a hard life. Well, this time of year is awesome. This is when we harvest all the work we've done for the rest of the year.
1:16.4	Exactly. And Mother Nature has been doing work. There is some harvesting to be done,
1:21.4	lines that haven't been in for a long time. Yeah, going off. Very exciting.
1:28.7	Cool. So let's dive right in. Today we're going to be talking about beacons, transceivers,
1:34.1	and a little bit about that technology, about BCA beacon program, and a bit about rescue strategies and things that we can do to be safer in the mountains. So to start out, BCA has been
1:39.4	a leader in the American transceiver market for a while now. Can you talk a bit about your philosophy to beacon design
1:45.7	that has allowed BCA to make consistently good beacons over the years?
1:49.8	Yeah, we keep it simple.
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