Women meet up for avalanche search practice in Jackson Hole

Jackson, Wyo. • Three women postholed through the wet, slushy snow — isothermal snow if they were to be technical about it. And they were.They sank in, at times, up to their knees, holding their avalanche beacons in front of their bodies, tuned to search mode. They studied the numbers reading on the screen. As the numbers dropped — a sign a signal was being picked up underneath the snow — they fell onto their knees and stomachs, zeroing in on what was buried below."Probe!"