Climbers and skiers using backcountry areas with avalanche danger should have avalanche equipment, take a course about avalanches and always be overly cautious.
Pieps, a brand that Black Diamond purchased in 2012 for $10.4 million, has released the Pieps Pro IPS just in time for ice and ski season. It comes in at $728 CAD / $530 USD. While other beacons, such as the Back Country Access Tracker S Beacon costs $350 CAD at MEC, the Pieps Pro IPS has enough new features that we feel it justifies the price tag.
Black Diamond wrote this about the new beacon here: After more than four years of development, the PIEPS Pro IPS Beacon is setting a new standard for avalanche transceiver technology. Featuring an innovative Interference Protection System (IPS), this beacon compensates for the influence of electronic and metallic interference to the transmitting device by analyzing and adapting to the interfering source. This makes the PIEPS Pro IPS better …