Alpental Beacon Park

The park is awesome. I plan to be back soon. Seeing the siren go off in the twilight every time we had a strike was kind of fun.

BTW, does the control unit save the times? I'm guessing no. But that might be interesting data. Especially if we knew something about the user and their beacon.

The additional targets will be a really nice addition. Thanks for adding those today!

I'll have to take another stab at it, thanks!

Stevens pass is supposed to have one called BCA beacon basin. I haven't checked it out yet. Has anyone else?

www.stevenspass.com/Stevens/the-mountain/z-beacon-basin.aspx

I called the Stevens Patrol FAR a few days ago and she said
they were in the process of moving it so it is not active
right now.

Ten of us joined stimbuck and Rob Gibson (Risk Manager at Alpental, yikes what a job!) for beacon and (wo)manniken search exercises at the Beacon Park today.   The setting, tools, weather and instructors were perfect for optimal training, thanks to all.  Afterward we were honored to meet David Pettigrew's dad and sister, and had a chance to thank them personally for this valuable snow safety educational resource. 

It is available 24/7, just show up and press the button, wait two minutes for random transmitter selection and system startup, then begin searching and bolster or bruise your ego with your results.

I called the Stevens Patrol FAR a few days ago and she said
they were in the process of moving it so it is not active
right now.

If people feel that they would use a "beacon park" at Stevens, I encourage you to voice your support to either BCA or the Stevens Pass Ski Patrol. The current setup that we have is quite antiquated (looks nothing like what Alpental has). I suspect that a surge of interest would help to bring newer systems and motivation to that program. It's awesome to see that people are using these resources.

The Alpental Easy Searcher field has been off-line for a couple of days. Routine maintenance of the system and some "snow" maintenance as well. The snow was too firm to probe through, making the searches somewhat incomplete. I'll be up there today, so it should be going by mid-afternoon.

Cheers,

Stimbuck