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lightweight snow camping in Oz 11-May-2009 At 9:14:16 AM TonyB

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On 8/05/2009 superstu wrote:
>(b) encourage people to carry shelters for safety.

Unfortunately it doesn't always work out that way. These days I carry every piece of safety gear possible. However in my early days of BC skiing I had a partner collapse with hypothermia near Seaman's hut. In good weather, Seaman's is a very easy day/half day trip but my partner had the flu, hadn't eaten, it was very cold and very windy etc etc. It it hadn't been for Seaman's I have no doubt that she would have died.

If we had EPIRB's back then we may have been OK ... although from my experiences working at Charlotte's Pass, Parks and Wildlife were nowhere to be seen when we were out on bad weather rescues. Relying on electronic devices as a safety measure can be dangerous ... I would have thought that disabling the existing EPIRB system and changing to a new one would have been front page news, as would the day my GPS didn't work because as I later discovered, the satellites were being reprogrammed !