>>159589>>159687>>159708DO NOT enter avalanche terrain alone. Not worth it. "In-bounds" ski area terrain is patrolled and monitored by experienced avalanche professionals, but in the backcountry you're on your own. Enough to ride, enough to slide.
Avalung will help once you're buried. Personally I'd rather not get buried, so I went with an airbag pack. The prices on those have come down a lot (I paid over $1,000 for mine a few years ago, now you can get them for less than half that).
Beacon, shovel, probe, education on how to use them, and ride with buddies that have the same. I do not want to go to another funeral for a friend killed in an avalanche ever again.
Pic related, my Snowpulse pack.
