Avalanche Safety Course
What will I learn?
Get proper good at avalanche safety with our complete Avalanche Safety Course, planned out for sports pros trying to level up their skills in places where things can get hectic. Dig deep into the nuts and bolts of how avalanches work, weather smarts, and figuring out what's risky to make good calls out in avalanche country. Learn how to use safety gear properly, sort out backup plans, and run rescue jobs. Beef up how you talk to your team and your safety rules to be sure you're ready and feeling good about tackling any snowy place.
Develop skills
Enhance the growth of the practical skills listed below
Know how avalanches start: Understand the different kinds and what causes them, for your safety.
Read the weather right: Guess when avalanches might happen by understanding the weather.
Do rescues properly: Know how to act quick and smart in an emergency.
Size up avalanche dangers: Check out the land and figure out how risky things are.
Use safety kit properly: Get good with transceivers and all the other gear.
Suggested summary
Workload: between 4 and 360 hours
Before starting, you can modify the chapters and the workload.
- Select which chapter to commence with
- Add or remove chapters
- Increase or decrease the course workload
Examples of chapters you can include
You’ll be able to generate additional chapters similar to the examples below
This is a free course focused on personal and professional growth. It does not equate to a technical, undergraduate, or postgraduate qualification, but offers practical and relevant knowledge for your professional journey.