Beacon Training Park "Operations"

[Chowda]

I'm thinking about writing a proposal to the City of Denver to install a Beacon Training Park at the Ruby Hill Snow Park, and am looking for some information.

Can anyone point me in the right direction to start exploring some of the following:

System purchase cost
Set-up/Take-down cost, difficulty, time
Routine Maintenance requirements



Also, aside from vandalism, can you think of reasons this would never work?

[pesto]

I'd get in touch with BCA. I'm guessing they can answer the cost/technical questions.

[skifishbum]

^^^What he said the ones in the Wasatch are funded through them wasatch backcountry rescue and others. Kind of bullshit that the canyons is mid mountain where as Soli and the Birds are in the parking lots were all can use them.

[snoboy]

I was just reading about this stuff today.

BCA's page on parks

I think I read somewhere $1500 for the BCA model.

Manuel Genswein (inventor of Barryvox beacons) also makes a higher end version with lots more features. Link to info about it here: http://www.genswein.ch/downloads/Man...figuration.doc

Annual maintenance of our park involves testing before installation, maybe some wire replacement. During season, I check that the batteries are good, and test making sure beacons are still working. I usually wait to install it until there is about 80-90cm of snow, and I usually let it melt out in the spring. Takes 3 of us about 3 hrs to install. If it's a wired model make sure there is a large sign that says "NO SHOVELS!"

I spent a day rebuilding ours this year so that it only requires disconnection of the battery instead of the whole control box.