Description
This course will cover field examples and real hands on training of the following…
- Recognizing avalanche terrain, avalanche run out zones and terrain traps
- Considering and executing basic route selection
- Motorized travel protocols in avalanche terrain (i.e when to go one at a time, hand signals, manner in which you park, etc.)
- Understanding snowpack layering
- Basic stability tests (how to perform safe slope cuts to identify instabilities, small column tests)
- Cover current snowpack conditions and weather effects using the avalanche bulletin
- Companion recovery including probing, shoveling, beacon use
The 2022/23 schedule is forthcoming. Contact us for details!