Avalanche Courses
This 24-hour course is an introduction to managing avalanche hazard. You will learn how to use a repeatable process to manage your risk and learn from your experiences in the backcountry. You will also practice preparing for and carrying out a backcountry trip, keeping track of, communicating, and making decisions about hazards while in the backcountry, and learn rescue techniques if an avalanche occurs and someone is caught. Students should be effective riders in the backcountry, but there are no other pre-requisites.
This 24-hour course is an introduction to managing avalanche hazard. You will learn how to use a repeatable process to manage your risk and learn from your experiences in the backcountry. You will also practice preparing for and carrying out a backcountry trip, keeping track of, communicating, and making decisions about hazards while in the backcountry, and learn rescue techniques if an avalanche occurs and someone is caught. Students should be effective riders in the backcountry, but there are no other pre-requisites.
This one-day (8-hour) course is intended to be retaken on a regular basis in order to keep abreast of best practices in rescue techniques and gear. New participants will learn companion rescue, and returning students will expand their skills with advanced topics and realistic scenario practice. Students should be effective riders in the backcountry, but there are no other pre-requisites.
The AIARE 2 builds on your experience as a backcountry traveler. You will learn tools to apply The AIARE Framework, the repeatable process you learned in an AIARE 1, to new situations and to self-direct your learning after the course. You will learn more skills to connect weather, snowpack and avalanche processes, and identify how these processes relate to observations and travel within avalanche terrain. This can enable you to act as a leader within a small travel group and to identify and target reducing uncertainty about the terrain or conditions.
Combinations
The AIARE Rescue course is a stand-alone 1-day field course that can be combined with the AIARE Level 1 or AIARE Level 2* course.
Check our Calendar of Courses page for availability.
To book a standard 3-day AIARE course with a Rescue course, add both items to your cart, then use one of the following coupon codes at check out to receive the special combination pricing (a significant discount).
Level 1 + Rescue
Price: $750 Coupon: AIARELevel1+Rescue
Rescue + Level 2
Price: $900 Coupon: AIARERESCUE+Level2
*Both the AIARE 1 and Rescue course are pre-requisites for a Level 2.
Additional Course Offerings
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