Enhance your backcountry skills with this durable and compact field guide by Alexis Alloway, catering to both professionals and recreationalists. Serving as a quick-reference tool, it covers leadership, risk management, search strategies, probing and shoveling techniques, medical protocols, patient packaging, rigging diagrams, and more. With 126 pages, it stands as a comprehensive resource for backcountry avalanche rescue scenarios. Ideal for refreshing terrain assessment skills mid-season, checking patient packaging in the field, or ensuring knot and snowpack test accuracy. The waterproof, tear-resistant, spiral-bound guide is a go-to reference for all levels of expertise, measuring 5.5" wide x 7" tall x 0.5" thick and weighing 5 oz.