Fast-track your avalanche safety training with this 5-day course that includes complete Avalanche Level 1 and Avalanche Rescue courses. This course begins with an intro to backcountry skiing/ split-boarding course that will readily prepare you for this comprehensive Avalanche Level 1 progression.

Fast-track your avalanche safety training with this 5-day course that includes complete Avalanche Level 1 and Avalanche Rescue courses. This course begins with an intro to backcountry skiing/ split-boarding course that will readily prepare you for this comprehensive Avalanche Level 1 progression.

Take your avalanche education to the next level with our one-of-a-kind hut trips! Our Avalanche Level 2 Hut Trip runs at various huts throughout Colorado. We’ll head into the hut, settle into basecamp, and spend three nights and three days covering AAI’s Avalanche Level 2 curriculum and exploring backcountry terrain. Our team is made of experienced AAI Qualified instructors and professional mountain guides with decades of experience in avalanche terrain. This experience comes from the Alps to Alaska to right here in the Front Range of Colorado. Colorado is one of the country’s premier backcountry skiing and splitboarding destinations. This Avalanche Level 2 Hut Trip course combines classroom and field instruction.

Take your avalanche education to the next level with our one-of-a-kind hut trips! Our Avalanche Level 2 Hut Trip runs at various huts throughout Colorado. We’ll head into the hut, settle into basecamp, and spend three nights and three days covering AAI’s Avalanche Level 2 curriculum and exploring backcountry terrain. Our team is made of experienced AAI Qualified instructors and professional mountain guides with decades of experience in avalanche terrain. This experience comes from the Alps to Alaska to right here in the Front Range of Colorado. Colorado is one of the country’s premier backcountry skiing and splitboarding destinations. This Avalanche Level 2 Hut Trip course combines classroom and field instruction.

In Avalanche Level 2, you’ll learn how to apply The AAI Backcountry Checklist, tour planning tools and assess hazard/exposure in complex terrain, new snow climates and/or areas where external avalanche observations and forecasts are not readily available. In this course, you’ll learn to manage uncertainty by identifying and managing gaps in information. We’ll describe and discuss weather, snowpack and avalanche processes, and identify how these processes relate to observations and travel within avalanche terrain. If your backcountry progression is taking you to huts or expeditions, or you’d like to be able to drill down past zone-level forecasts, Avalanche Level 2 is perfect for you.

In Avalanche Level 2, you’ll learn how to apply The AAI Backcountry Checklist, tour planning tools and assess hazard/exposure in complex terrain, new snow climates and/or areas where external avalanche observations and forecasts are not readily available. In this course, you’ll learn to manage uncertainty by identifying and managing gaps in information. We’ll describe and discuss weather, snowpack and avalanche processes, and identify how these processes relate to observations and travel within avalanche terrain. If your backcountry progression is taking you to huts or expeditions, or you’d like to be able to drill down past zone-level forecasts, Avalanche Level 2 is perfect for you.

This course is designed for avalanche workers early in their careers, or for experienced workers wanting to stay current with industry standards. The focus of this course is to prepare students to be contributing members of a risk management team by developing observational skills, as well as communication and rescue skills. During this course, we will focus on developing systems for planning and executing a route, as well as for evaluating snow stability. The goal of this course is to help students become skilled observers who will contribute to a professional team.