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Data-Gathering Snow Probe Will Help Skiers Avoid Avalanches

The SP1 will never light up green to signal it’s safe to hit record on the GoPro and schralp the gnar.

For all the recent technological advances in avalanche safety, the most crucial factors for any backcountry traveler are experience and judgment. You can’t outsource them, can’t automate them, can’t put them into a piece of gear. What you can do is improve them with access to better information.

That’s what a new company, AvaTech, is hoping to offer with an innovative hardware/software tool that could be the biggest advance in backcountry safety since the original transceiver locator beacon.

By Joe Lindsey

Full Story: http://www.wired.com/2014/11/avatech-snow-probe/

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