- Credit
- Jen Coulter
An avalanche probe is a long, thin, collapsible rod used by a rescuer to pinpoint the location of a burial subject beneath the snow surface.
Avalanche probes are normally made of sections of rugged, lightweight material, such as aluminum or carbon fibre, and threaded by a cable that is used to quickly guide and lock the sections together when the probe is deployed.
Avalanche probes are also used to make point observations of the snowpack’s depth, as well as the depth and hardness of snowpack layers.