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Pieps IProbe One Probe
Innovative Product
By Brian Muller
Ranked #48 - Avalanche Safety
November 13, 2008
After seeing a demonstration from Pieps about this product at the Utah Avalanche Center lecture, it is apparent that this thing, while expensive is groundbreaking, however serves basically the same purpose as a probe. If you are without a beacon (stupid) than this would help, but the accuracy of a beacon is good enough to allow you to begin digging, and to be honest some stupid people will use the iprobe to then begin to dig directly on top of another person, causing more problem than harm because the beacon is located at the chest number 1, and number 2 people need to learn proper shoveling techniques. Very cool device, but until the price comes down, invest in a good beacon because its not worth it
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3 Comments Last Reply: January 9, 2012 By: Nick Barlow
"stupid people will use the iprobe to then begin to dig directly on top of another person, causing more problem than harm" So, digging out a burial victim (yes, perhaps hitting them with the shovel) and saving their life is doing more harm than good? The victim is dying of asphyxiation. The only thing that matters is time.
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This is a horrible review from somebody who has no personal experience with the device. 1.No, it doesn't just serve as a probe. 2The uninformed rescuer who will begin digging on top of another person will still do that with any other probe as well. Perhaps your person giving the demonstration didn't explain all of the functions, or you didn't fully understand. I have this probe along with 2 DSP beacons and a freeride. The advanced functions allow me to give the less experienced user the DSP and I keep the freeride. In the case of multiple burials, the probe deactivates the beacon of the found victim, allowing me to pick up the second victim's signal. A truly innovative feature. 3. Invest in a good beacon, a probe and a shovel. Not just the beacon. Anybody interested should go the Pieps website and research the actual functions.
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This review is all mixed up. The Pieps iProbe is of course intended to serve the same purpose as a probe, because it is . . . a probe. And an enhanced probe as such, to take the uncertainty out of whether you have a real strike or not. If you don't have a beacon, it won't help that much, because you'll still have to probe the entire debris field. But no, the accuracy of a beacon is not good enough to allow you to being digging without probing first (unless the burial is very shallow, but in that case a body part is probably already visible anyway). Whether the price and weight are worth it though is another question.
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