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Tyler's Backcountry Awareness

Empowering and challenging backcountry riders to expand their skills so that their adventures can reach new heights.

Backcountry rider Tyler Lundstedt’s undeniable and contagious passion for snowmobiling in the great Rocky Mountains led him and fellow riders to ever greater heights and challenges. Born in 1987, Tyler came to work in construction and running heavy equipment, but that was just to pay the snowmobiling bills. Ever smiling and always with a helping hand, Tyler would be found engaged in something productive. Those riding with Tyler would experience the mountains in ways most never will. The more obscure and hard to reach places offer the challenges and skill-building excitement an enthusiastic rider can appreciate. On January 21, 2012 Tyler died in an avalanche near Buffalo Pass in Colorado. The passion he shared with the world is a tremendous legacy. Tyler’s Backcountry Awareness was created to challenge riders to build their skills in safety and preparedness.

10/27/2025

Just like baning together to help your riding buddies when they are stuck, you should likewise ban together and take an avalanche course together.

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10/21/2025

IF A HELICOPTER COMES TO YOUR AID

The team should prepare a landing zone, if possible, by removing any loose debris and instructing team members to secure personal packs and clothing. Protect the patient from blowing snow when the helicopter arrives. Don’t approach the helicopter until instructed to do so by the pilot.

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10/15/2025

FOLLOW THE TRANSCEIVER SIGNAL TO THE BURIAL AREA

Rescuers should move quickly on foot, adjusting course to follow their transceiver’s arrow indications and watching the distance units decrease steadily until it drops below 10. Under 10, the rescuers should slow down and note their paths towards the victim. Usually the approach line will be a curved arc, based upon how the transceiver searches. Occasionally the line may be straighter depending on how the victim is oriented.

When the units drop below 5, the searcher should slow to a crawl, and finish the search on their knees. Leaving a marker here can help identify a line that points towards the victims location. The searcher’s transceiver should remain along the snow surface and oriented in the same direction for the remainder of the search. Rotating it will change the distance readings and confuse the search.

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10/12/2025

When traveling in the backcountry, your riding skills combined with your avalanche skills is what provides you the best opportunity for a safety.

Here are a few recommendations of riding skill development organizations:

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10/09/2025

When the units drop below 5, the searcher should slow to a crawl, and finish the search on their knees. Leaving a marker here can help identify a line that points towards the victims location. The searcher’s transceiver should remain along the snow surface and oriented in the same direction for the remainder of the search. Rotating it will change the distance readings and confuse the search.

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10/06/2025

The Level 2 is a three-day/24-hour course that provides backcountry travelers an opportunity to advance their decision making skills in more complicated situations such as being a leader within a small travel group, traveling in more complicated terrain, and/or developing a travel plan where resources are scarce.

The Level 2 builds on the introductory avalanche hazard management model introduced in the Level 1 and adds to it the evaluation of critical hazard assessment factors. Students will describe and discuss weather, snowpack and avalanche processes, and identify how these processes relate to observations and travel within avalanche terrain.

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09/24/2025

It is very important to regularly check all your avalanche gear for proper functionality. This might mean you need to get air tanks refilled on your avalanche bag, but it’s far more important to know the gear works properly than to worry about having to refill it.

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1401 E Lincoln Avenue
Fort Collins, CO
80524

Website

http://Backcountryawareness.org/

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