Skills Refresher Course

Rates

$210 per person

Duration

9+ hours

About

An early season must do! Polish up on essential skills to help keep you and your partners safe while traveling in avalanche terrain. This one-day field and touring-based course focuses on strategies to help prime your brain for the coming season. We will review and apply skills students learned or missed in their Level 1 course and put the wheels in motion while on a ski tour.

All Backcountry Pros instructors work as professional ski guides and consequently we focus heavily on 'real world application.'

​Topics Include:

• Companion rescue review
• Early season stability forecasting
• Snow pit review and application
• Selecting appropriate terrain for the conditions
• Review of avalanche terrain
• Review of safe travel techniques
• Group management

Prerequisite:

• Advanced ski or snowboarding ability
• Ability to skin a minimum of 1500' at a moderate pace
• Avalanche I certification