Impact Vest

[whee]

Anybody check these out?? Seems pretty sweet to me. Built in chest protection.


http://www.thewary.com/vest/impact_overview.php#

[Mule]

My concern is that you can't keep other avalanche equipment with you while wearing it.

Chest protection, great... avalanche pack, great... where's your shovel and probe go? Survival equipment? Radio/phone? That's all stuff I'd rather have on me and not on my sled. I'm guessing that with the vest/airbag, you really couldn't wear even a small backpack with it.

If it were a little more like the Ogio flight vest, something with a little more storage area, I might consider it. As it is right now, I'll stick with a Tekvest and Snowpulse pack.

[whee]

I has 20L of storage and a place for your shovel, not sure about the probe.

[whee]

Ok so there is room for the probe and shovel but the 20L is the storage space including the space for the airbag; not sure how much space the airbag takes.