Level 1: January 28th – February 2nd, 2024
Level 2: January 29th – February 3rd, 2024
Avalanche Rescue is for everyone, whether you are just learning how to use your transceiver, an aspiring professional, or a backcountry traveler with many years of backcountry experience. This one-day course is a place to both learn new skills and keep your existing skills sharp. Avalanche Rescue is a prerequisite for the AIARE 2. Must be able to traverse the backcountry on snowmobile. Open to snowbikes but not snowbike specific.
The Level 1 is a two-day course that provides an introduction to using decision making tools to help a group manage risk while traveling in avalanche terrain. Students can expect to develop a good grounding in how to prepare for and carry out a backcountry trip, to understand basic decision making while in the field, and to learn rescue techniques required to find and dig up a buried person (if an avalanche occurs and someone in the party is caught). Must be able to traverse the backcountry on snowmobile. Open to snowbikes but not snowbike specific.
The Level 2 is a two-day course for those who have taken an AIARE 1 and Avalanche Rescue and have had at least a year of backcountry travel experience. The AIARE 2 provides backcountry leaders the opportunity to advance their avalanche knowledge and decision making skills by applying their skills to new terrain and situations. Avalanche Rescue is a prerequisite for the AIARE 2. It is highly recommended that participants gain at least one season’s worth of backcountry travel experience between taking the AIARE 1 and the AIARE 2. Must be able to traverse the backcountry on snowmobile. Open to snowbikes but not snowbike specific.
Backcountry Guides Available January 1st – March 31st Annually
A 16+ hour course designed to provide participants with the essentials of first aid that will better prepare them for injuries and accidents in the backcountry. Participants will receive the necessary Wilderness First Aid certificate to achieve snowmobile guide credentials required by government agencies such as the United States Forest Service (USFS).
December 18th – 19th, 2023
March 30th – 31st, 2024
Daily Clinics Offered January 1st – March 31st Annually
Instructor Guide Clinic: December 15th & 16th, 2023
Women’s Clinics:
• January 13th – 14th, 2024
• February 2nd – 3rd, 2024
• March 2nd – 3rd, 2024
• February 7th – 8th, 2024
• February 8th - 10th, 2024
• February 9th – 10th, 2024
• February 22nd – 24th, 2024
• Level 1: January 28th – February 2nd, 2024
• Level 2: January 29th – February 3rd, 2024