Ep. 253: Avalanche Safety Awareness - Nolan Hurd
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2017
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Nolan Hurd, one of the Bent Gate Mountaineering BC101 clinic leaders, spends some time to educate us on Avalanche Safety. If you are a beginner and know nothing about how avalanches and how they work or even if you are a seasoned professional, you are in for some excellent information we all need to have before entering the snow-filled back country!
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| 0:00.0 | These guys have your back, if anything goes wrong. |
| 0:02.7 | And you want to make sure that you have theirs. |
| 0:05.6 | So it really makes you want to practice and get good at these skills. |
| 0:09.8 | And so that way, if anything ever does happen, you're able to proficiently use them. |
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| 0:28.3 | Get out there and have some fun. |
| 0:37.5 | Episode 253, Nolan Heard talks about the things you need to know before heading into the snowy backcountry. |
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| 1:47.2 | And on the line with me is Nolan Hurd. |
| 1:50.7 | He's one of the guys who leads the BC 101 clinics down at Bentgate Mountaineering in Golden, Colorado. |
| 1:58.1 | And you guys have heard that name because they've been a longtime sponsor of our show. So I thought maybe we would get Nolan on and have him give us a little bit of a rundown, a high level of things we need to be aware of when we go out into the back country in the wintertime. So first of all, Nolan, welcome to the show. Hi, Travis. Thanks for having me. I'm really excited to be here. |
| 2:17.7 | Yeah, I'm ready to learn. As I was telling you before the interview that treat me as a |
| 2:23.5 | noob, because I really, I don't have much in the way of avalanche knowledge. It's something |
| 2:29.3 | I need to do before I do set foot into the wilderness again. And we want to encourage people after hearing this to definitely go get some |
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