
Avalanche Safety Course
Avalanche AIARE Level 1
AIARE 1 avalanche safety course
- Info
- COVID-19: Learn about our most up-to-date guidance for participants and leaders on our COVID-19 Response page. All participants and leaders must agree to the COVID-19 Code of Conduct before participating in this Mountaineers course.
- Wed, Dec 2, 2015 - Sun, Jan 10, 2016
- Committee: Everett Skiing Committee
- Members: $250.00 Guests: $300.00
- Availability: FULL (51 capacity)
- Cancellation & Refund Policy
The Everett Mountaineers will offer an AIARE Level 1 Avalanche Course starting December 2015. The course is oriented towards recreational backcountry users like skiers, snowboarders, climbers, scramblers and snowshoers. The course will:
- Provide a basic understanding of avalanches and how to make pertinent terrain and snowpack observations for the avalanche problem at hand.
- Use a framework for decision making and risk management in avalanche terrain
- Focus on identifying the right questions, rather than on providing “all the answers.”
- Give lessons and exercises that are practically oriented, useful, and applicable in the field
Students can expect to develop a good grounding in how to prepare for and carry out a trip in avalanche terrain, to make relevant observations, to understand basic decision making in the field, and to learn rescue techniques required to find and dig up a buried person. The overall goal is to improve safety and decision making in avalanche terrain. It is a basic hazard management course and uses rule based tools in combination with introductory knowledge based decision making tools. The course is a stand alone course, but provides a great link to an AIARE 2 avalanche course.
The course is a combination of home study, classroom work and field trip work.
The classroom lectures will be in a meeting room at Snohomish Co PUD in Everett at 2320 California St, Everett, WA 98201. Please bring pen and paper for taking notes. Equipment will be discussed at the first lecture. Shovels, probes, avalanche transceivers and either backcountry skis, snowshoes or splitboards are required for field trips.
For enrollment or course information, please contact: Mike Palmer at mike@cascadespecialty.com or Lee Wilcox at leebttrcup@aol.com. Sign up online www.mountaineers.org or phone 206-521-6001.
The field trip is in the Mt Baker backcountry with optional overnight stay at the Mountaineers Lodge. The field trip could involve cold and wet weather and elevation gain of about 2,000 feet. The terrain is extremely well suited for an avalanche course.
Lectures: Dec 2 630-930p, Dec 9 630-930p, Jan 6 630-930p. Field trip (both days) Jan 9-10 8a-4p
Badges you will earn:
Course Activity | Date | Availability | Leader |
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Avalanche Classroom Session | |||
Snohomish County PUD |
Wed, Dec 7, 2016
Registration closed Dec 4
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2
participants
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Snohomish County PUD |
Thu, Dec 15, 2016
Registration closed Dec 4
|
2
participants
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Snohomish County PUD |
Thu, Jan 5, 2017
Registration closed Jan 4
|
0
participants
|
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Seattle Program Center |
Thu, Jan 2, 2020
Registration closed Dec 19
|
0
participants
10 instructors
|
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Seattle Program Center |
Mon, Jan 6, 2020
Registration closed Dec 19
|
0
participants
4 instructors
|
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Seattle Program Center |
Wed, Jan 8, 2020
Registration closed Dec 19
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0
participants
4 instructors
|
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Seattle Program Center |
Mon, Dec 14, 2020
Registration closed Nov 30
|
48
participants
0 instructors
|
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Online Classroom |
Wed, Dec 16, 2020 -
Wed, Jan 6, 2021 Registration closed Dec 14
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0
participants
0 instructors
|
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Online Classroom |
Wed, Jan 13, 2021
Registration closed Dec 14
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0
participants
0 instructors
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Online Classroom |
Wed, Jan 20, 2021
Registration closed Dec 14
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0
participants
0 instructors
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Weekend Field Trip | |||
Baker Lodge |
Sat, Jan 7, 2017 -
Sun, Jan 8, 2017 Registration closed Dec 4
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2
participants
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Baker Lodge |
Sat, Jan 11, 2020 -
Sun, Jan 12, 2020 Registration closed Jan 19
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0
participants
7 instructors
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Weather appropriate clothing and footwear. Flotation - snowshoes, skis, or split board. Avalanche transceiver, metal shovel, and probe. Additional gear requirements will be discussed at the first classroom day.
You must register for this course to see course materials.