{"id":2374,"date":"2016-01-18T13:05:21","date_gmt":"2016-01-18T12:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/snowboardshop.hu\/?p=2374"},"modified":"2019-11-19T14:06:08","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T13:06:08","slug":"a-freeride-snowboard-es-a-backcountry-felszerelesek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snowboardshop.hu\/en\/a-freeride-snowboard-es-a-backcountry-felszerelesek\/","title":{"rendered":"Freeride snowboard and backcountry equipment"},"content":{"rendered":"
On the occasion of my European gliding, I wanted to join the freeride tours of local faces, the "locals" quite a few times. They usually didn't want to - they kept to themselves where the best deep snow was in the nearby "secrets".<\/h6>\n

So I experimented with my own freeride map with quite a bit of getting lost, wandering and trying - often alone. So did my friend Golo. He is also used to going into the unknown alone. If "local cowboys" did take me with them, they had one question: do you have avalanche safety gear?<\/p>\n

\u00a0\"Andrew<\/a><\/h5>\n
Do you have a beeper, snow shovel, probe or avalanche airbag?<\/h5>\n

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If it wasn't, they immediately shook it off. So I bought it. Understandable. Why would they take any responsibility for an unknown snowboarder whose skills are unknown? In addition, these riders were always confident figures, advanced riders who do not necessarily like to feed others in their free time. The last push to get normal avalanche equipment was when my friend Gabi Csorba and I flew to British Columbia. Snowboarding overseas for a month was my old dream, and backcountry gear is a must if you want to ski off-piste.<\/p>\n

It's actually been a long time coming for me to put together the rescue backpack. Many years ago, during the "Slovak period", we visited Vratna a lot, and my younger brother Csaba and my friend \u00c1kos were swept away in a coloar by a surprisingly strong avalanche. They got away cheaply, Csaba got up in the middle of the avalanche with a few bruises from the cubic meter blocks of snow, half covered. \u00c1kos traveled 200 meters in it and prayed. The others just watched like a plowed mouse in an area the size of 2 football fields. It was hopeless to ask where \u00c1kos could be. His new Hammer broke in two, but he escaped unscathed. He dug himself out of the snow blocks with 10 seconds of work. Fortunately, it wasn't wet or a large amount of powder snow, which would have condemned them to immobility under the snow, but large broken blocks with relatively many gaps between them, leaving air to breathe and move to wriggle out. After all this, \u00c1kos bought two beacons and explained to us how to find each other.<\/p>\n

\"ACCES<\/a><\/h6>\n
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  1. Later, with Csaba, we skied on the southern Chopok, when the whole mountain started, approx. 500 meters away. It was "only" a layer of avalanche, half a kilometer long, roaring, carpet - we took it to a party and slid in it.<\/li>\n
  2. When we skied the Kaprun XXL with the Riders and Mokus from Baja (10 km pure freeride from 3000 m), two large avalanches came towards us, but they stopped in front of our position. We didn't know that but. You must not set off here after 10:00 a.m. in sunny weather. By this time we had our own avalanche airbag, but luckily we didn't need it.<\/li>\n
  3. It hasn't been in Nendaz yet. In the Swiss H\u00e1romv\u00f6lgy, we were again taken away by a smaller avalanche. Golo in my neck, me below. At first we didn't take it seriously, but then it didn't want to stop, at quite high speed, and finally we crashed into a tree in the snow.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I think this is enough reason to collect what we need when we go on a freeride tour. So what does avalanche gear look like, why should you have it on hand, and how should you go about it?<\/p>\n

    \u00a0<\/h5>\n
    1. The Beeper, the beacon.<\/h5>\n

    Once the snow gets buried in such a way that you can't move, you have 20 minutes left to live without help.<\/p>\n