Last year the Glencoe ski centre opened an avalanche tranceiver training park, and now Nevis Range is set to follow suit. The Nevis ski centre, situated just outside Fort William, plans to create an area where people can train to use the devices to help find avalanche casualties and is likely to be useful to mountaineers, climbers and back country skiers.
Nevis Range is working with Back Country Access and the UK supplier of the devices. As with the Glencoe park, the area would be free to use and would help to promote safe back country skiing.
A spokesman for Nevis Range said the transceiver park would be made available to skiers, snowboarders, winter skills groups and mountain rescue teams. At Glencoe nine buried transmitters were made available to help people practise in how to operate the transceivers.