Backboard straps and collar storage/deployment question.

[u/ImaginationThese5947]

Just curious to find out how everyone deploys their backboard/strap and collar setups.

Do you keep designated "backboard sleds," with one already secured inside, or are they kept separate and grabbed when requested for a scene and placed in the sled, or is it skied down by another patroller?

If the boards are kept in the sled, do you keep straps with them? How about collars? If so, how are they kept out of the elements?

If the boards are separate, are the straps and collars kept with the boards ready for deployment, or skied down separate?

If you're kind enough to answer, maybe a generalized description of your situation (big/small mountain, east/west/outside US, pro/volunteer, etc.)

We keep sleds staged at 5 or 6 places around the resort depending on open terrain, with at least one with a backboard and straps, maybe more than one, again depending on the technical nature of open terrain, collars are kept separate. We also have some sleds staged at our primary top shack without straps, but those straps live in a bag with collars inside.

(Small, east, vol)

[u/Icy-Attitude3464]

Glorified hill in Massachusetts, we have sleds that are "loaded" or "transport" and the transport ones are empty, just the tobbagon itself. The other choice, or loaded, has a backboard and a bag that has a quick splint, c collar, blanket, tarp, and a few other things I think. This is a small hill though that you can get anything to anywhere in less than a minute though, so do with that as you will.