{"id":1248,"date":"2007-05-29T10:46:24","date_gmt":"2007-05-29T15:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/?p=1248"},"modified":"2007-05-29T10:46:24","modified_gmt":"2007-05-29T15:46:24","slug":"wow-a-snow-snorkel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2007\/05\/29\/wow-a-snow-snorkel\/","title":{"rendered":"Wow, a snow snorkel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Appropriate, now that the snow season&#8217;s pretty much over: I happened upon a link to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avalung.com\/direct.html\">Black Diamond Avalung,<\/a> which allows people trapped in avalanches to breathe by taking air from the surrounding snow and  rerouting exhaled air somewhere else.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wildsnow.com\/articles\/avalung\/avalung_review.html\"> This article at Wildsnow.com<\/a> gives an in-depth review of how it works, what its limitations are (no help if the slide smashes you into trees or carries you off a cliff, for instance) and so forth. It sounds pretty nifty for  people who do a lot of deep-powder skiing; hard to say if it&#8217;s worth the trouble for snowshoeing, but it might  qualify as nice to have (just for the coolness factor, if nothing else).<\/p>\n<p><P>Link via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tubaduba.com\/2007\/05\/black-diamond-avalung-breathe-under.html\">TubaDuba<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><P>(Long as I&#8217;m on the subject of cool gear you&#8217;ll never use: how about a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.summitequipment.com\/\">leg pack?<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Appropriate, now that the snow season&#8217;s pretty much over: I happened upon a link to the Black Diamond Avalung, which allows people trapped in avalanches to breathe by taking air from the surrounding snow and rerouting exhaled air somewhere else.&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2007\/05\/29\/wow-a-snow-snorkel\/\">Read the whole thing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}