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ENAvalanche Gear Summer Storage: What Most Backcountry Skiers Get Wrong
The skis are racked. The sleds are parked. For backcountry travelers wrapping up another season, avalanche gear summer storage deserves attention before summer takes hold: proper storage of avalanche safety equipment.
A few minutes of off-season care can mean the difference between gear that performs when it counts and gear that fails; or voids a warranty.
Why Avalanche Gear Summer Storage Starts With Your Batteries
The single most important step is also the most overlooked. Battery acid can corrode the metal terminals of an avalanche transceiver over time if batteries are left inside, and the consequences go beyond an inconvenient repair bill.
Corrosion will worsen all summer, potentially rendering a beacon unusable by the time fall arrives, according to Jeremy Jolley, U.S. market manager for Arva Equipment. Most manufacturers do not cover this kind of damage. Transceiver manufacturers do not warranty corroded battery connections, treating it as user error, so the fix comes out of pocket.
A practical tip: tape a fresh set of batteries to the outside of the transceiver before storing it. That way, when the season opens again, there is no scramble to find working batteries before heading into the field.
Avalanche Gear Summer Storage: Firmware and Recall Checks
It is also worth checking whether your manufacturer has issued any firmware updates, service bulletins, or recall notices since last season. Summer is the logical time to address them. Transceivers more than three or four years old may develop signal drift, a condition in which the device’s 457kHz transmission drifts enough that other beacons have difficulty locating it. A call to the manufacturer can clarify whether a service visit is needed.
That point carries added weight this season. Black Diamond recently recalled its Recon LT Avalanche Transceiver, manufactured and sold between June 2021 and February 2025, due to a risk of signal transmission failure during emergencies. Owners of affected units should check their serial numbers and follow Black Diamond’s instructions for repair, exchange, or refund.
Inspect Your Shovel and Probe
Gear checks at the start of the season are too late for problems that could have been caught months earlier. Inspect the shovel connection point where the handle meets the blade, and confirm the blade is straight and free of burrs. Left unaddressed, rough or burred edges on a shovel blade will wear against pack fabric all summer, creating damage that only becomes apparent when it is too late to fix before the season.
Run the probes through a full assembly, paying attention to the internal cable — any fraying is a sign it needs replacing — and look closely at each segment junction for signs of cracking or wear. A probe that fails to lock properly under pressure, especially while wearing gloves in cold conditions, is not a probe you want to rely on.
Fully assemble both pieces of gear now. Confirm everything fits together correctly. Finding a problem in October, when new replacement parts may be on backorder, is a far worse situation than finding one today.
Avalanche Gear Summer Storage: Shovel, Probe, and Where to Keep It All
Gear should live somewhere out of sunlight, away from humidity, and at a stable cool temperature; a basement shelf or equipment closet is ideal. Heat and moisture accelerate corrosion and material degradation. Keep transceivers in their pouches and probes loosely assembled or fully broken down, not compressed under other gear.
The backcountry season will return. Whether your safety equipment is ready when it does depends on what you do with it now.
The post Avalanche Gear Summer Storage: What Most Backcountry Skiers Get Wrong appeared first on SnowBrains.
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