The first event in the Backcountry Accreditation, Snow Sense and Planning, this season is a five week webinar series.
Each webinar is scheduled from 7:00pm to 8:00pm and will cover the following topics.
- Avalanche Awareness: Weather, Snowpack, Terrain, Aspect
- Safe Travel and Rescue: Transceiver, Probe, Shovel, Route decisions, Reading snowpack
- Snow Analysis: Hasty, analysis along the route, Pit analysis, Pit tools and reporting, Physics and chemistry of snowpack
- Orienteering: Bearing/check, Pace, Reading features, maps, Triangulation, GPS and phone
- Equipment/Clothing/Fuel-H2O/Athleticism: Discipline equipment, Skinning and equipment, Moisture management, Endurance pacing and ability
Participants must attend all five webinars and fulfill the assigned assessments to receive six continuing education credits.
