❄️Avalanche Safety Course - AIARE 1

Event Cost with Registration: $595

The AIARE Level 1 Avalanche course is the industry standard avalanche education every recreational winter backcountry user needs to complete.

A hands-on and complete course that builds a foundation for skiers and snowboarders to learn the basics of how to evaluate avalanche terrain and make good decisions in the backcountry. This will be a hybrid course with 2 full days in the Mt. Shasta backcountry and online pre-course work completed prior to the start.

At the end of the course, you will receive a certificate of completion. Upon completion of this level one course you will have an understanding of: Trip Planning and Preparation Characteristics of avalanches Types of avalanches, and danger scale An introduction to snowpack metamorphism and layering Field observation techniques Stability tests Terrain recognition, assessment and route finding.