- Credit
- Wren McElroy
A probe line consists of a group of searchers lined up in a row to look for someone buried in an avalanche, each person with an avalanche probe. Probe lines are normally employed when a transceiver search is either unsuccessful or not possible.
To set up a probe line:
- Establish the most likely area of burial.
- Line up searchers in a straight line, spaced approximately 1.5 metres apart (wrist to wrist).
- Searchers probe three times, once in front of the sternum, then reaching left and right about 50 cm on either side of the middle hole.
- Searchers take one step forward and repeat the process.