Avalance beacons save lives
■ Beacons send out signals that allow
buried persons to be located quickly, which
increases survival chances
By Inge McMillen
for the Emerald
The Oregon Outdoor Program attracted 18 students
to its office Tuesday night for an information clinic
on how to use avalanche beacons.
Avalanche beacons are electromagnetic trans
ceivers that send out signals from buried persons to
other team members that are carrying compatible
transceivers.
If everyone in a party knows how to use them, vic
tims can be located within six minutes, said Mick
Pearson, Oregon student and mountaineer. “It is cru
cial because you won’t have time to call in for help.”
During the first 15 minutes chances of surviving an
avalanche are 95 percent, program coordinator Dan
Geiger said. After 35 minutes, those odds are down
to 30 percent, and in less than two hours, chances
Geiger said.
“You don’t want to ski anything with beacons that
you wouldn’t ski without,” he said.
Back-country skiers are statistically the most vul
nerable to avalanches accidents.
“Avalanche safety cannot be stressed too much,”
Pearson said.
He got hooked on back-country skiing during an 8
day snowboarding trip in Colorado. “My goal is to be
a guide,” Pearson said. “I’m in the right direction. I
just need experience and dedication.”
Pearson will take a glacier rig and rescue class to
add to his avalanche safety class. “Oregon has a lot of
mountains to climb right here in our own backyard,”
he said. “The best thing to do is to be prepared.”
ive declined to 3 percent.
While these transceivers make back country travel
msiderably safer, they also tend to be misused,
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covery. California head coach
Tom Holmoe was grateful to hear
it.
“I talked with the surgeons, and
they indicated the procedure
couldn’t have gone better,” Hol
moe told the San Francisco Chron
icle.
Boiler’s absence allows senior
Wes Dalton to make his first career
start in the final game of his career,
•as the Bears will do everything
. possible to upset their Bay Area ri
vals — including limit what Stan
ford’s notoriously irreverent band
is permitted to do at the game.
The Stanford athletic depart
ment and Big Game security offi
cials have requested that the
school’s band avoid directing any
of its choreographed satire at the
Bears or their fans this weekend.
The request comes in light of re
cent violence that had erupted af
ter the last two Big Games, when
peeved Cal students violently re
taliated against celebrating Stan
ford students.
San Francisco Examiner colum
nist Glen Knapp wrote Tuesday
that the band wasn’t at fault for the
recent hysteria. Instead, she
placed complete blame on Cal stu
dents, writing: “Anyone who sees
a fight brewing should tell the in
stigator: ‘You know, that exposes
you as an admissions-office mis
take ... We dumped affirmative
action to let you in?’”
UCLA’s woe-line deserving a
bit of respect
The Bruins have had a very bad
season. They’ve gone from reign
ing Pac-10 champs to a sad 4-6
team.
Since being routed in'their sea
son finale against Miami last sea
son, UCLA has fallen into what
must seem—to the Bruins at least
— like a never-ending and well
documented funk.
Handicapped parking scams.
Injuries. Quarterback struggles.
Lack of confidence. You name it,
they’ve been through it.
Even in UCLA’s big win against
Washington, things got worse.
Two starting offensive linemen
were lost for the season during
bye-week practices prior to the
game against the Huskies. So Bob
Toledo pro
ceeded to
shuffle his
lineup so
much • that
only left
guard Oscar
Cabrera
played his
usual posi
tion.
TOLEDO , Blake Wor'
ley moved
from left tackle to right tackle, but
he sprained a knee ligament in the
first half and left the game.
Matt Phelan, usually a guard,
started at center. But he broke his
collarbone in the first quarter and
became UCLA’s latest loss for the
season.
In Phelan’s place, fourth-string
lineman James Ghezzi, a guard
tackle who hadn’t played center
since high school, became the
Bruins’ newest center.
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