Ski Patroller/Avalanche Technician Gear Loadout

Items included are from my pack/pockets.

From top left:

• Trauma Shears
• Sharpie
• Zip ties
• Ear Plugs
• Clear cycling glasses (won’t fog up like goggles on a wet day)
• Sunglasses
• Plastic bag with 2 heat packs inside
• Large first aid kit
  • includes emergency blanket, personal PPE, splints, airways/mask, triangulars, assortment of dressings/bandages/tape, tourniquet, etc.
• Plastic scraper (for clearing iced up snow measurement boards)
• BCA polycarbonate snow crystal screen
• Level right in the rain with a mechanical pencil taped to the back
• Electrical tape
• Brunton Compass
• Clipper jet lighter (great for melting frayed ropes and thawing frozen locks)
• Wiha 1m folding rule
• Nitecore nu25 headlamp with shockcord headband (incredibly bright and compact)
• Mora Eldris Light Duty knife
• A few metres of 2″ tubular webbing
• Snow Study Kit
  • Carson Loupe
  • 2m long life folding rule
  • Extra pencils/pens
  • Cooper digital thermometer
  • RITR blasting log + CAA field book
• Metal Thermos (ideally filled with hot tea)
• Barryvox S Transceiver
• Leather fleece lined work gloves (regularly waterproofed with oil/wax)
• Showa Temres 282 gloves (pinnacle of glove technology!)
• BCA Shovel (large/smooth blade for clean snow pits)
• BCA 330 probe
• SMC aluminum snow saw with ECT cord wrapped around handle
• Long voile strap (not pictured)

For context I work in a very wet/coastal snowpack hence the clear lenses and waterproof gloves. This is not a perfect list, but it is what I actually carry.

February 17, 2025