Take your backcountry skills to the next level! This yurt based all inclusive course will help give you the skills to become a leader in your group. ​

 

Our Yurt based AIARE 2 is the perfect combination of immersive hut trip and hands on education that will leave you with the confidence to evaluate snowpack, facilitate group decisions, and elevate your backcountry game.​

 

The AIARE 2 builds on your experience as a backcountry traveler. You will learn tools to apply The AIARE Framework, the repeatable process you learned in an AIARE 1, to new situations and to self-direct your learning after the course.

 

You will learn more skills to connect weather, snowpack and avalanche processes, and identify how these processes relate to observations and travel within avalanche terrain. This can enable you to act as a leader within a small travel group and to identify and target reducing uncertainty about the terrain or conditions.​

 

Who Should Take this Course

The AIARE 2 is a three-day course for those who have taken an AIARE 1 and Avalanche Rescue and have had at least a year of backcountry travel experience.

 

The AIARE 2 provides backcountry leaders the opportunity to advance their avalanche knowledge and decision making skills.

 

Student Learning Outcomes

 

Differentiate where specific avalanche hazards exist within the landscape and identify avalanche terrain where consequences may be more severe.Use and interpret weather, snow, and avalanche observations to locate appropriate terrain prior to entering and while in the field.Demonstrate leadership skills within a small team that include facilitating small group discussion, promoting appropriate terrain selection, and utilizing simple risk management strategies.Implement a basic forecasting framework that can be used in conjunction with and in the absences of local supporting avalanche information.

 

Prerequisites

 

Participants must have the ability to travel in avalanche terrain.An AIARE 1 Course (strongly recommended) or equivalent Level 1 training is required.A winter of practical experience after the Level 1 course is highly recommended before taking the AIARE 2 course.AIARE or AAA approved one-day Avalanche Rescue Course.