Scotland Opens Year-Round Avalanche Training Center
By Michael Frank on November 14th, 2011
Scotland might not be the snowiest place on earth, but it’s now home to the world’s first year-round avalanche transceiver training school. While in summer the school uses wood chips to simulate the white stuff, the training works just like it does in winter (it was designed by Backcountry Access), where transceivers simulating victims are buried and students have to learn how to find them quickly. And unfortunately Scotland does see numerous avalanche deaths each winter, since there’s plenty of backcountry skiing and climbing there.