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A good start for your tour begins with some basics: ensure your avalanche beacon has sufficient power, know your beacon and those of your partners, and follow through with a beacon check at the trailhead (and think about repeating the beacon check later in the day).

Many communities are knee deep already in beacon checks, snow assessment, and the move to non-rock skis. As daylight savings time reared up this weekend, so too did the need for avalanche beacon maintenance. Time to get on it. Here’s some easy first steps.

PIEPS and Black Diamond Equipment Avalanche Transceiver / Beacon Safety Check: A press release from Black Diamond.

The aggressive push for shovel, beacon, probe as mandatory safety gear is clear. Chris Van Tilburg asks if it is time for airbags to be added to that list.

Get out and practice. It’s time to practice with your beacons, which, in the least, should be more tolerable than, say, forced violin practice in middle school. We’re talking about familiarizing yourself with your avy beacon’s essential functions and gathering…

Explanation of the 2021 Black Diamond recall of the Pieps DSP Sport, DSP Pro and Ice beacon models.

Whether to wear your beacon in your pocket or in a chest harness is ultimately a personal choice, but each option has its pros and cons.

Black Diamond/PIEPS issues a voluntary recall for PIEPS DSP Pro, DSP Sport and DSP Pro Ice avalanche beacons in Europe, Asia, South America and the Pacific.

Inspect your beacon battery compartment to avoid or fix corrosion that can cause beacon malfunction.

What imagining you’re skiing without a beacon can teach you about avoiding avalanche terrain and minimizing risk in the backcountry.

We test the Pieps Black Diamond DSP Sport avalanche safety beacon regarding possible defects or design flaws.

After possible malfunctions of the Pieps DSP Pro and Sport beacons, professional skiers demand a recall.

Q&A with Andy Sovick, accidental publisher of Beacon Guidebooks. We talk maps, decision making, etiquette, how guidebooks help ski touring grow responsibly.

Imagine you are stuck at a hut. You usually sport both an avalanche beacon transceiver and an airbag backpack. But this time you only get one or the other. Which would you choose?

Pre-season steps to a fully functioning beacon It’s 8:00 pm and you are trying to get your gear together for that first tour of the year — do you know where your beacon is? And if you did finally find…

Arva has come up with a nice, compact beacon, avalanche safety in a package that fits in nearly any pocket, check this review.

The Black Diamond Recon BT avalanche beacon offers upgrades like Bluetooth and a new on/search/send switch, but keeps mainstays of previous generations.

Avalanche safety beacon return to transmit is an issue, known as auto revert, can cause confusion during a search.

In depth analysis and testing of Mammut Barryvox S avalanche rescue beacon, result is full review.

Avalanche beacon philosophy and new improved beacons by Mammut: Barryvox and Barryvox S.