Snowboard Apparel - Correct clothing equals safety
Get tuned to snowboarding safety fundamentals. Your snowboard clothing and how you provision reduces accidents and saves lives.
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Image may be everything, but coming back to the mountain for another day of boarding should be on your "list of things to do".
No guarantees are offered but snowboarding safety tips could well make that critical difference that both prevents an injury and saves your life in the extreme winter conditions that blow-up suddenly on all mountains.
Rule number one in snowboarding safety should be that you always hit the mountain for a day of fun with a buddy. Don't board alone. In the event that you boarded into unfamiliar territory or found your self in a backcountry off-trail section just as dusk settles in, you could be in for some major discomfort.
More critically, unless someone knows where you are or you have to ability to communicate to the 'outside', you might be facing a life-threatening situation.
Snowboarding safety rule number two concerns snowboard apparel. Your clothing choices should move beyond style and pouncing before a mirror in order to maximize your 'cool'. Rather, pick gear that is seriously designed to counter the weather extremes found on mountains, such as rain and snow and ice and over heating. Translated, material designs should be no less than Gore Tex quality fabrics which retard moisture, yet permit excess heat to migrate out to leave you thermally balanced. Your snowboarding gear should avoid cottons which soak up sweat, which could later freeze and trigger an irreversible slide into hypothermia, where you lose physical and mental control.
On mountain safety demands that you provision your head with a snowboard helmet or "brain case" in order to create a first line defense against noggin-crunching bailouts and run-ins with immovable objects like trees, ice overhangs, rocks and whatnot. Get a helmet that has airports for circulation plus removable earflaps so that you can regulate head heat during the spring boarding season when on-hill temperatures begin their climb towards summer.
Practical minded boarders outfit themselves with a small backpack. You'll carry a cell phone for emergency uses. Also, consider investing in an emergency space blanket to wrap yourself in, should you find yourself alone in the dark, injured or stranded.
Hands and eyes need safety protection so make sure your mittens are waterproof, insulated and have necessary padding on the palms in order to protect your fingers and wrists from injury. Equally important, your snowboard goggles should give you a good fit beneath your helmet, plus provide different lens to match the varying light conditions you'll find on virtually any day at the mountain.
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