Avalanche Training Winter 2018

Are you working or playing in the backcountry this Winter or Spring ?

With winter just around the corner it’s timely to think about preparing for the upcoming snow season.  The guys at Aspiring Guides are scheduling in  Avalanche Courses for this coming winter season.

Aspiring Guides are at the forefront of Avalanche Education in New Zealand and one of the leading providers of Recreational Avalanche Courses.  The courses are New Zealand Mountain Safety Council accredited and use professional NZMGA and IFMGA qualified mountain or ski guides to deliver the courses with experience in mountain and ski guiding, ski patrol, heli-skiing and mountain instruction.  

Courses are focused toward outdoor enthusiasts and also those working in the industry who regularly head into the backcountry - skiers, snowboarders, snow shoers, mountaineers, hikers, outdoor workers, deerstalkers and the like…

They believe it’s important for people working or recreating in the snow to have an understanding of avalanche awareness and we want to work with the members from your club to provide avalanche awareness training.  We have different courses from basic introductory to more comprehensive training:

 

1. 5 day Introductory Avalanche Awareness Course. This course involves a 3 hr evening theory session, followed by a full day in the field putting it all into practise. The course is an introduction into understanding the avalanche phenomenon, decision making and rescue. Upon completion participants will receive a MSC Avalanche Awareness Course Certificate, workbook and rescue card. 

4 day Backcountry Avalanche Course. A comprehensive course delivering 4 days of instruction based locally from our ski resorts in Wanaka/Queenstown and classroom lectures at our office in Wanaka. Understanding of weather, snow and the avalanche phenomenon is developed with the focus on good decision making, risk management and rescue skills for those venturing outside the ski area boundary.   Upon completion participants will receive a MSC Backcountry Avalanche Course Certificate, Transceiver Competence Certificate, Avalanche Awareness in the NZ Backcountry by Penny Goddard, workbook and rescue card.

4 day Backcountry Ski and Snowboard Tour. This course delivers the same content as the Backcountry Avalanche Course but is based in the mountains from our private hut in the Northern Pisa. For the entire 4 days the backcountry is your classroom and the ultimate place to learn avalanche education.  Upon completion participants will receive a MSC Backcountry Avalanche Course Certificate, Transceiver Competence Certificate, Avalanche Awareness in the NZ Backcountry by Penny Goddard, workbook and rescue card.