Enhance your backcountry skills this season! The Level 1 course is a 3-day, 24 hour introduction to managing avalanche hazard.  As a student you can expect to develop a good grounding in how to prepare for and carry out a trip, to understand basic decision making while in the field, and to learn rescue techniques required to find and dig up a buried person (if an avalanche occurs and someone in the party is caught).

The Level 2 course is a 4-day program providing backcountry leaders the opportunity to advance your avalanche knowledge and decision making skills.  The Level 2 course builds on the introductory avalanche hazard management model introduced in the Level 1, and adds to it evaluating factors that are critical to stability evaluation.

Small groups provide individualized instruction. Level 1 has a maximum 7 students per instructor.  Level 2 has a maximum of 6 students per instructor, 12 students total.

Instructors Sandy Kobrock and Mark Mueller operate Wolf Creek Backcountry and the Pass Creek Yurt, and have 50 combined years of operational avalanche field work and avalanche education upon which to draw.  All our Instructors are AIARE trained.

Level I Course        $249         January 11, 12, 13, 2008        

Friday - Sunday   8:30 am – 4:30 pm

Level II Course       $395         Feb 28, 29, Mar 1, 2, 2008       

Thursday – Sunday       8 am – 5 pm