Intermediate Backcountry Skiing/Riding & AIARE Prep

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Intermediate Backcountry Skiing/Riding & AIARE Prep

$185.00

Date:

January 14, 2024 December 31, 2023 December 17, 2023

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Backcountry Skiing and Snowboarding

Intermediate Course

Intermediate Backcountry Skiing/Riding & AIARE Prep is a one-day course that builds your physical and intellectual backcountry knowledge so you can get the most out of your avalanche education and backcountry tour. During your intermediate group lesson, you will develop more advanced skinning, transition, and downhill techniques and be introduced to essential trip planning and navigation tools, weather observations, and avalanche forecasts. Enjoy a longer tour with multiple aspects. You’ll leave this course feeling confident in your backcountry skiing/riding abilities and prepared to take a Group Tour or AIARE 1.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

Navigation Trip Planning Basics - Practice basic routfinding using paper maps and digital aids and how to read weather and avalanche forecasts; recognise avalanche terrain on a map and in the field by measuring slope angles
Departure Check - student led transceiver check before departing the trailhead
Uphill Travel - Learn how to break trail and set a good skintrack; introduction to kick turns
Transitions - improve efficiency when switching from tour mode to downhill
Downhill Travel - how to ski as a group, stack tracks, and communicate effectively including practice using radios

Course Details

PREREQUISITES . . .

Participants are expected to be proficient in skiing or riding on blue/black terrain and should have prior experience on off-trail ungroomed terrain within resort boundaries

Ideally, students joining this course should have approximately 1-7 days of backcountry experience

Skiers and riders should be familiar with their gear, know basic skinning techniques, and comfortably backcountry ski or splitboard