The first event in the Eastern Backcountry Education Program, Snow Sense and Planning, is currently offered in a five-part webinar series.
This course covers the following topics:
- Avalanche Awareness: Weather, Snowpack, Terrain, Aspect
- Safe Travel and Rescue: Transceiver, Probe, Shovel, Route decisions, Reading snowpack
- Snow Analysis: Hasty, analysis along the route, Pit Analysis, Pit Tools and Reporting, Physics and Chemistry of Snowpack
- Orienteering: Bearing/Check, Pace, Reading Features, Maps, Triangulation, GPS and Phone
- Equipment/Clothing/Fuel-H2O/Athleticism: Discipline equipment, Skinning and equipment, Moisture Management, Endurance Pacing and Ability
Participants must attend all five webinars and fulfill the assigned assessments to receive six continuing education credits.
EASTERN BACKCOUNTRY EDUCATION PROGRAM
- Snow Sense and Planning is the first of three courses in the Eastern Backcountry Education Program.
- Collecting Data is the second of three courses in the Eastern Backcountry Education Program.
- Putting It All Together is the third of three courses in the Eastern Backcountry Education Program.