Schedule of Courses
To sign up for the following classes:
Visit Brown Paper Tickets.
2010-2011 Classes
- Dec 4th - Awareness Class
- Dec 5th - Skills Course
- Jan 8th - Awareness Class
- Jan 9th - Skills Course
- Jan 22nd - Awareness Class
- Feb 12th - Awareness Class
- Feb 13th - Skills Course
- Feb 26th - Skills Course
- March 12th - Awareness Class
Prices:
- One Day Awareness $ 90
- Skills Course $125
- Combined $185
- Pricing is for advanced sign up there will be a $20 additional charge for signing up the day of the class
Contact Information: For questions please email Chad Patterson at chad@methownet.com
About the Courses
One Day Awareness Class
The one day awareness class focuses on WHY we make inappropriate decisions in avalanche terrain and HOW to make better decisions based on solid information.
We focus on how to best use the Avalanche Bulletin as a primary tool in planning where to ride, when to ride there, and what to be aware of while out in the terrain.
Through small group activities, participants learn to recognize the patterns in human behavior and decision making that has lead to previous accidents. Through this recognition we provide the training to help you have the discipline to follow a checklist of safety protocols that will let you go out, have fun, AND come back again.
The goal of this class is not to scare you away from riding. It is exactly the opposite: We want you to ride, every day if possible, but doing so by choosing terrain appropriate to the hazard identified in the avalanche bulletin.
This course has been taught for over six years and has enjoyed a reputation as being innovative, thorough, and immediately useful. Participants come back year after year as a refresher to reinforce the idea’s introduced to them in the course.
Instructors are professional avalanche instructors, as well as riders themselves. They have been trained to effectively deliver course curriculum in an entertaining and relaxed atmosphere. There is a high-degree of audience participation, which results in a hands-on experience you will not soon forget.
Plain and simple, this class will make a difference in where you ride, how you ride, and who you ride with.
On The Snow Avalanche Rescue Skills Course
This class focuses on developing avalanche rescue skills and backcountry travel through avalanche terrain. Participants will learn to effectively and efficiently use a shovel, probe, and transceiver in companion rescue scenarios.
By starting out introducing students to beacon theory, range, and proper use, shoveling techniques, as well as the proper usage of the probe, participants will gradually gain confidence in the use of safety gear. By the afternoon, participants will be participating in group rescue scenario’s involving multiple beacons.
At the end of the training, participants will be competent in the use of their safety gear, and will have been properly trained in how to conduct a safe and effective companion rescue.
Participants will have access to an advanced “Beacon Basin” which allows instructors to activate one, two, or multiple beacons in a rescue scenario.
Participants are required to bring their own safety gear (shovel, probe, beacon), and dress for being outside all day.
