Uploaded February 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
Our Backcountry Access 25 Years Deep video shows how BCA has evolved to promote good decision making and a #sendandreturn mentality to skiing and riding in the backcountry. Featuring a burly Alaskan line and Float airbag deployment by Daron Rahlves and some timely BC Link radio comms to keep snowboarder Hunter Schleper out of a slide coming down behind him.
Backcountry Access (BCA) is a leading manufacturer of snow safety equipment, including BCA Tracker avalanche transceivers, Float avalanche airbags, BC Link radios, MtnPro snowmobile gear, Stealth avalanche probes, and Dozer shovels. BCA's mission is to save lives, not just sell products. We consider avalanche education to be as important as its avalanche safety equipment and deliver all of our products with consumer education and knowledgeable customer service.
Learn more: backcountryaccess.com
Our Backcountry Access 25 Years Deep video shows how BCA has evolved to promote good decision making and a #sendandreturn mentality to skiing and riding in the backcountry. Featuring a burly Alaskan line and Float airbag deployment by Daron Rahlves and some timely BC Link radio comms to keep snowboarder Hunter Schleper out of a slide coming down behind him.
Backcountry Access (BCA) is a leading manufacturer of snow safety equipment, including BCA Tracker avalanche transceivers, Float avalanche airbags, BC Link radios, MtnPro snowmobile gear, Stealth avalanche probes, and Dozer shovels. BCA's mission is to save lives, not just sell products. We consider avalanche education to be as important as its avalanche safety equipment and deliver all of our products with consumer education and knowledgeable customer service.
Learn more: backcountryaccess.com
![[EDGE]ucation S3 Field Notes - Three Antenna transceivers](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/mi2KE8Ov8E8/mqdefault.jpg "[EDGE]ucation S3 Field Notes - Three Antenna transceivers
Digital transceiver versus analog transceiver, or two antenna versus three antenna? Learn what’s more important and what’s up with that third antenna from BCA Co-Founder Bruce Edgerly (hint: all current BCA Tracker models are digital, three-antenna transceivers).
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![BCA [EDGE]ucation Season 2 - Trailhead Checks & Electro-Magnetic Interference EMI Backcountry Access](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/nlfk4knLtt4/mqdefault.jpg "BCA [EDGE]ucation Season 2 - Trailhead Checks & Electro-Magnetic Interference EMI Backcountry Access
Backcountry Access [EDGE]ucation is back and better than ever—with a second season of no-frills backcountry education tips from BCA co-founder Bruce “Edge” Edgerly. In a series of thirteen concise, easy to digest videos, Edge and expert guests break down key takeaways from their continuing avalanche education, with lessons on everything from identifying red flags in the snowpack to group searching techniques, transceiver interference, applying the avalanche forecast to terrain choice, and much more. [EDGE]ucation is here to refresh and reinforce your existing avalanche education and to keep your skills sharp and up-to-date when preparing to enter the backcountry.
Learn more www.backcountryaccess.com/en-us/blog/p/edgeucation2
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![[EDGE]ucation - Do I Really Need to Dig Snowpits?](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/npFXYz_8zXw/mqdefault.jpg "[EDGE]ucation - Do I Really Need to Dig Snowpits?
How often do you really need to dig snow pits? As a recreational backcountry user, the answer is... Not often. BCA Co-Founder Bruce Edgerlys strategy? Leave the digging to the avalanche forecasters. Bruce recommends reading the avalanche forecast in the morning, and digging hasty pits and hand shears tests to verify what he saw in the avalanche bulletin.
Digging snow pits a few times throughout the season is a great way to identify and track weak layers over time. On a regular basis, however, there is so much variability in the snowpack that no one snow pit should be used as a green light to travel on a particular line.
Learn more and shop all the tools you need for examining the snowpack and avalanche safety:
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