DATES

December 12-20, 2009
Little Cottonwood Canyon, UT - CANCELLED

February 20-28, 2010
Telluride, CO

Colorado 2010 Course Logistics

DESCRIPTION

This is a comprehensive professional course aimed at all levels of current and future avalanche workers: forecast center avalanche observers, ski patrollers, ski guides, search and rescue coordinators/trainers, highway technicians, and experienced recreationists who want to pursue a career in the avalanche realm. Sixty percent of the course will be conducted in the field with the remaining forty percent of the course in the classroom. The course is eight days long and each day will be between nine and eleven hours of instruction.

This course will provide participants the opportunity to become accurate and efficient in snowpack observation. The course will solidify the participants' understanding of snowpack physics and avalanche formation and give them tools to apply that knowledge to the assessment of avalanche potential. Terrain assessment, route finding, group management, and decision-making will be examined and practiced daily. Avalanche rescue and beacon use will be extensively practiced. Additionally, the course will provide an overview into highly organized avalanche control programs (both at ski areas and highways), and provide industry norm instruction into avalanche control practices.

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