Avalanche Awareness for Skiers and Splitboarders

Overview

This Avalanche Awareness course is for skiers and splitboarders who want to learn how to ride the best snow, without getting buried by it!

There is a growing body of research into how skiers and splitboarders make route decisions in avalanche terrain. We will look at how some of this research can actually make a big improvement to our safety on the hill. Furthermore, a skier or boarder’s best bet for a successful avalanche rescue lies in their companions. Fact. You owe it to yourself and others to have good rescue skills, so we aim to spend quality time learning ‘companion rescue’ on-snow.

To maintain awareness of changing avalanche danger, skiers and splitboarders should continuously monitor snow and weather conditions. This has been proven to be far more effective in assessing risk than digging ‘snow pits’. Nevertheless, we will also spend some time examining the snowpack and layers during the course.

This Avalanche Awareness course requires skiers and splitboarders to be self-sufficient. This means you should be confident skinning and/or bootpacking in a variety of conditions. Please ask at booking if you want to check your skill level.