The first event in the Backcountry Accreditation, Snow Sense and Planning, is currently offered in a five-part webinar series.
This course covers 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 at the times allotted and fulfill the assigned assessments to receive six continuing education credits.
More Info & To Register for November 2021 Series:
