An early season must do! Polish up on essential skills to help keep you and your partners safe while traveling in avalanche terrain. This one-day field and touring-based course focuses on strategies to help prime your brain for the coming season. We will review and apply skills students learned or missed in their Level 1 course and put the wheels in motion while on a ski tour.

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All Backcountry Pros instructors work as professional ski guides and consequently we focus heavily on 'real world application.'

Topics Include:

-Companion rescue review

-Early season stability forecasting

-Snow pit review and application

-Selecting appropriate terrain for the conditions

-Review of avalanche terrain

-Review of safe travel techniques

-Group management

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Prerequisites:

Advanced ski or snowboarding ability

Ability to skin a minimum of 2000' at a moderate pace

Avalanche I certification

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Course includes Zoom based evening session at 7pm day prior to the posted field day date

801 631 4360