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- Pick the most efficient search pattern based upon what you observe at the slide path and what you know about the range margin for your buried partners.
- Considerations:
- If the slide path is narrow (less than twice the range margin), do a fall line search in the center. Don't waste time with the zig-zag pattern.
- If you have a last seen point for the trapped skier, start your search at that point, and do a fall line pattern below this point. Don't waste time with the zig-zag pattern.
- If you have a surface clue (hat, pack, ski pole, etc.), do a fall line search above and below this clue. Don't rely on a ski as a clue. A detached ski may ski itself out of the fall line course of the victim.
- If you have multiple rescuers so that adjacent fall line patterns can be conducted
- simultaneously and cover the entire slide path, don't waste time with any zig-zag patterns.
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