Backcountry Access | BCA Float 15 and 25 Turbo™ Avalanche Airbags with 2.0 System @BackcountryAccess | Uploaded July 2018 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
Featuring the Float 2.0 inflation system, both the Float 15 and 25 Turbo are technical avalanche airbags designed for mountain sledding.
Creating buoyancy and helping you float to the surface, the 150-liter airbag not only decreases your burial depth but also protects your head and neck from trauma in an avalanche. BCA’s 200 authorized refill locations around the world make it the easiest refillable airbag system on the market. The Float avalanche airbag system does not guarantee survival in an avalanche incident. Educate yourself, make good decisions, and know before you go. The float 2.0 air cylinder must be purchased separately.
See the entire line of BCA Float™ avalanche airbags: backcountryaccess.com/en-us/c/airbags-backpacks/avalanche-airbags
Featuring the Float 2.0 inflation system, both the Float 15 and 25 Turbo are technical avalanche airbags designed for mountain sledding.
Creating buoyancy and helping you float to the surface, the 150-liter airbag not only decreases your burial depth but also protects your head and neck from trauma in an avalanche. BCA’s 200 authorized refill locations around the world make it the easiest refillable airbag system on the market. The Float avalanche airbag system does not guarantee survival in an avalanche incident. Educate yourself, make good decisions, and know before you go. The float 2.0 air cylinder must be purchased separately.
See the entire line of BCA Float™ avalanche airbags: backcountryaccess.com/en-us/c/airbags-backpacks/avalanche-airbags
![BCA [EDGE]ucation Season 2 - Ensuring Safe Regroup Locations : Backcountry Access](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/_wuthxRrJks/hqdefault.jpg "BCA [EDGE]ucation Season 2 - Ensuring Safe Regroup Locations : 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 at www.backcountryaccess.com")
![[EDGE]ucation - Does my cell phone affect my avalanche transceiver?](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/aCy4ja2sUVM/hqdefault.jpg "[EDGE]ucation - Does my cell phone affect my avalanche transceiver?
[Edge]ucation meets myth busters: cell phone interference edition. In this video, BCA co-founder Bruce Edgerly demonstrates the effects of a cell phone when searching with an avalanche transceiver. He uses an old analog transceiver to illustrate what electromagnetic noise sounds like, then replaces the analog transceiver with a Tracker4 to show the effects on a modern, three-antenna digital transceiver.
When your beacon is in transmit mode, there are no tangible effects of a cell phone on a transceiver search, even if they are very close together. In search mode, you can experience loss of receive range and even false readings if your cell phone is within a few inches (or several centimeters) of your searching transceiver.
The bottom line? Follow the “20/50” rule. Store any electronic devices at least 20 cm (8 inches—or one “hand width”—away from your transmitting beacon. In search mode, keep your searching beacon 50 cm (20 inches) away from electronic devices. This is one arm’s length, which is good search technique anyway!
Learn more about avalanche transceivers and shop here: https://backcountryaccess.com/en-us/c/rescue-gear/avalanche-beacons/")
![[EDGE]ucation - Turn the Beacons Off in Multiple Burials](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/aW3fxRR3VsQ/hqdefault.jpg "[EDGE]ucation - Turn the Beacons Off in Multiple Burials
Dont be overwhelmed by the multiple burials functions on your transceivers. Rather, keep it simple. In most cases of a multiple burial scenario, start by digging out the victim until you can get to their airway, make sure they are breathing, and TURN OFF their transceiver. Your transceiver in search mode will then take you to the next signal. Remember: your transceiver will always bring you to the closest signal. Use your last-seen points to begin, and narrow the search from there.
BCA co-founder Bruce Edgerly suggests you learn how to conduct a multiple burial search both ways: by using the functions on your transceiver, AND by learning how to turn off your partners transceivers.
Learn more and shop transceivers here: https://backcountryaccess.com/en-us/c/rescue-gear/avalanche-beacons/")
