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Show is itself carried to the edges and to the ground, only to be run over again later by following snow masses* Onus, with few exceptions, an avalanche with a smooth path buries its victims in the deposition zone or along the edges where damming occurs* The limper ( more inert) the victim's body is during the downward course and the more motionless he remains during this time, the deeper in the avalanche the point of location will be. Note: Experience impresses us with the fact that the majority of buried persons, disregarding special burial and terrain situations, are deposited at the con* 1 of the avalanche. Trickiness of avalanches* Almost every avalanche has its own special trickiness, to be encountered by the rescue crews and which throws logical and tactically correct decisions into disorder and thereby jeopardizes the success of the mission. Of course, almost every search operation is made more difficult by the fact that the search crew has no knowledge of the accident details and has to reconstruct same on the basis of conditions observed ( traces, objects, flow of the avalanche, etc.). In addition, the search operation is made more difficult by manifold influences of all sorts, which often cannot be predicted. Attention is called to the following particular examples: 1. Tremendous avalanche dimensions in the search area, ( snow depth - overall dimensions) 2* Hardening of the avalanche snow after moist or wet avalanches, ( impossible for scent to come through to dog; impossible or or difficult to probe)* 3* Subsequent snow fall often makes the avalanche area unrecognizable* 4* Inconceivable point of location with enormous pressure and suction of a wild snow avalanche. 5* Point of location of the buried person in streams which carry the scent hundreds of feet below or completely absorb same ( crevasses)* - 4 5 - |