An industry-leading, professional-grade avalanche beacon, the new Black Diamond Guide BT features cutting-edge features for long-range and multiple burial searching, and Bluetooth functionality.
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Overall rating: 4.8421054 / 5 from 57 reviews.
The Black Diamond Guide BT beacon is highly regarded for its extensive range, ease of use, and professional-grade features. It offers a 60-meter circular range, Bluetooth connectivity for smartphone management, and reliable signal processing. The beacon's design includes soft-touch contact points and a self-check function for accurate antenna performance.
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"Battery life is awesome, super simple to setup. Took the Avy 1 cert with it and everything works awesome on it."
"It's the best mix of the long range scan and the multiple burial flagging of the Mammut Barryvox and the fine search capabilities of the Tracker 4. And super easy to update when updates are available."
"Just replaced my T3 with this beauty and it was love at first sight. The ease of flagging/un-flagging and the visual coding is all really user-friendly. The beacon feels good in my hand. It would be a nice little calming piece of equipment to have in a shi*tty situation."
"Very solid beacon, tested using other manufacturers and has great range and readability - will be my beacon of choice going forward"
"Easy to set up and use with the Pieps app, added bonus of lanyard and shoulder pouch. Very happy with it!"
"Great so far. Only practiced with it. Hopefully never have to use it for real."
"Excellent speed, fine search, multiple burial features. Best battery life. Downside: battery life is displayed in thirds. Very expensive. Bulky. Recommend that you practice use with those you ski with, particularly family (and child skiers) before betting your life on their ability to use this device."
"Just completed my AST at whistler with extremely Canadian! Having flag feature helps a ton during Muti burial, it true the switch is tough to slide but I see that as great feature ! Too bad battery shows bar not percentage, otherwise it fantastic!"
"Great beacon. Easy to use."
"I'm an avalanche educator who practices and teaches rescue skills often, and I just switched to the BD Guide this season. I LOVE this beacon. It's very easy to use, even for multiple burials. The range is excellent, the processor is fast, and I love that I can get updates for it via the Pieps app. I have spent a bunch of time in the beacon park with it and the flagging function works great, even with 3 or 4 burials. I find the carrying harness to be simple and comfortable. Can't recommend this beacon enough!"
